Would you take crates ? <| sep |> I think the search for more money has a better ring to it . <| sep |> I faintly remember them saying that if you unlock one of the colours for an appearance through an achievement , it would be unlocked for all your characters . Might be an unintended consequence of that , might also be working as intended . They ultimately dont want you to have to do the same achievement on multiple characterspecs to get all of the colours . At least from my understanding . <| sep |> Apparently , it ' s not just a British thing . America <| sep |> Yep . Untalented gay musicians are the worst . Freddie Mercury is rolling in his GRIDS grave . <| sep |> Think of the wind ensemble as a collection of smaller ensembles I . e . A brass quintet 2 trumpets , trombone , french horn , tuba or a wind quintet flute , clarinet , oboe , French horn , bassoon or a percussion ensemble . Then think of how you can use bits and pieces of each of these to achieve different sounds . Think of how they complement or contrast each other . French horns are conical like the tuba , trumpets and trombones are straight pipes which flair out at the bell . Clarinets are subdued and dark , while the oboe and bassoon sounds rich and sometimes comical . This is A LOT to take in but I wanted to instill an idea that you shouldn ' t overwhelm yourself attempting to use the entire ensemble , a lot of wind writing incorporates the idea of block orchestration using chunks of the ensemble frequently while sparingly using the whole ensemble There are orchestration books too , although they ' re a bit exhaustive and could take quite a while to read through before you really take away enough info to begin writing . And it sounds like your goal is to write . I ' d suggest you keep doing your score studies and try to focus on HOW Mahler uses the ensemble with the melodic ideas . And go with that . Maybe check out Percy grainger , I hear he ' s a bad ass . Keep in mind this is all coming from someone who mainly writes jazz ensemble stuff . It ' s the same ideas for the most part . Glad to see you ' re interested in writing for an ensemble so vast at your age . Side note a work around to having the lush sustained notes from the strings is to use other sections to sustain and switch to a new section if it sounds too monotonous .