Spencer Rubin finds comedy in classical musicians' listening habits
His only new Short brings audition recordings, reed descriptions and metronome beeps into the conversation.
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Only A Classical Musician Would Say This... #shorts 🎻
Listening back to your own playing can become a project in itself. Beneath Spencer Rubin's "Only A Classical Musician Would Say This... #shorts 🎻", viewers are swapping stories about replaying practice recordings and choosing an audition take with the deadline closing in.
The Short was his only upload this week and has reached about 163,000 views. Rubin, who describes himself as an oboist at Juilliard in New York City, has a particularly specific musical corner to draw from: commenters single out the reed descriptions, honking sounds and a metronome beep. One imagines the recording buried under an unhelpfully generic filename. This is classical music with the polished concert performance set aside for a moment.
His subscriber audience is more than twice the size of the Bands of HM Royal Marines, a nearby channel in the orchestral world, though their subjects offer very different entrances into it.
The new Short is also his most active video right now. Two older uploads remain close behind in daily views: "Are Classical Musicians Athletes?? 🤔 #shorts" and the more cryptically titled "The REAL Truth... 🤫".
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What viewers say
Not me getting this after I spent an hour trying to find my least sucky audition recording before it was due in an hour
Update: I got in! 1st chair in the 3rd level band@The_Gothic_PickleSee it on YouTube"Yeah, it's called "Untitled_249"
@Weremsye1See it on YouTubethe honking is so on point haha
@raethrowawaymoon903See it on YouTube
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the squeak and UGHHH at the end 😭 real I fear
@raixmuneSee it on YouTubeTHIS IS SO REAL I LISTEN TO MY RECORDINGS SO MUCH 😭
@XloveFourSee it on YouTubethe little beep of the metronome at the end too lmaoo
@etanesnil7072See it on YouTubeReal for us oboes unfortunately
@Lil_bill4786See it on YouTubehaha during all-state audition recording season too😅
@tizzychen-u3oSee it on YouTubeThe metronome 💛
@supertuff67isnotfunnynomoreSee it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on Spencer Rubin right now
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- Spencer Rubin
- Subscribers
- 873,000
- Videos published this week
- 1
- Video published
- October 10, 2026
- Video views so far
- 163,479
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In which city is Juilliard, the school Spencer names in his channel description?
Juilliard is in New York City, which Spencer also names in his channel description.