Instruments

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• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I faked trombone all the way through middle school. Adam, the kid next to me, knew how to play trombone and could read the music as well. What I did was create my own system of trombonal slide positions, numbered 1 through 6. Then I would watch where Adam moved his slide with each note played, and I would write the corresponding number from my system above each note on my paper.

  I leached you like a fucking vampire, Adam.

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s almost as much work as learning it!

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  • crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    you created your own system for actively refusing to learn to play normally. lol

    i mean good job too I guess but I think just practicing would have been less effort.

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  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is especially funny because I think there’s only 7 positions on a typical trombone anyway, and unless you have godlike lips can only hit 3 or 4 octaves across those. i played trombone through high school and it’s like the easiest instrument, haha.

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  • OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • TassieTosser@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did the same for the piano tbh. I was better at rhythm games than parsing sheet music so I’d practice and memorise pieces on something like Synthesia.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s harder when playing plinky plonk though.

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    • oldfart@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s why I’m stuck playing with one hand, never properly learned notation

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• unreachable@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Haha. The seal really sells it.

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    • KellysNokia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seal of approval 🦭

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  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day

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• lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think non-musicians can tell a cello from a violin and a tuba from a trumpet.

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  • pocopene@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. This is not a musician vs a non musician, but a musician vs a 5 years old.

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    • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wish it was that way. I’ve seen a 20 year old get brass instruments mixed up. Many reference squidward when talking about clarinet, oboe, English horn, and bass clarinet. Unfortunately it isn’t just musician vs a 5 year old.

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  • PsyKiere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve had multiple people call my baritone saxophone a trumpet… It’s funny and sad everytime

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    • meep_launcher@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The amount of times people have called my trumpet a saxophone, or my trombone a saxophone, or my clarinet a saxophone, or my melodica a saxophone, or my saxophone a saxophone apauls me.

      Never call someone a saxophone; not only is it rude, it’s a slur and against the law.

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  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But can they tell a violin from a fiddle?

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    • Nomad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re only fiddles if you want to play in a band in Texas

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The difference is the bridge. Fiddle has a flatter bridge to make it easier to hit all four strings at once. Violin has a curved bridge to make it difficult to hit multiple strings at once.

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  • candybrie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Soundwise or visually? I can see the difference (big vs little) but I don’t think I could reliably pick out the sound between the two.

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    • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was thinking visually. But even sound-wise I don’t think most people would hear a cello and think that’s a violin (even if they don’t know it’s a cello). But I’ve listened to a lot of Apocalyptica and 2Cellos, and I also grew up on cartoons that feature tubas frequently for comedic effect, so maybe I’m just biased.

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Never look up the Hungarian name for the bassoon.

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  • Moops@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love blowing my Fagott.

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh.

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  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh no

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  • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same in most languages (a variation of fagott).

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• teft@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I only recognize one epic saxophone guy and it isn’t george michael.

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  • ArkhamNightshift@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thought for a minute you were going to say Sexy Sax Man youtu.be/GaoLU6zKaws?si=jdPgpAw12HX0YqzP

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’d best recognize Leo Pellegrino

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  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait, that’s neither John Coltrane or John Zorn.

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• hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My sister plays both the violin and the big violin.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Simultaneously??

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  • homesnatch@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My sister is the big violin.

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• ZealousSealion@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People: “This is a xylophone.”

  Musicians: “It’s metallic, hint hint.”

  People: “Yes, it’s a metallic xylophone.”

  Musicians:

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Glockenspiel is just fun to say though…

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• Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a musician, this is how I feel when talking to percussionists. Pretty much anything that makes a sound can be used for percussion and plenty of them have been given specific names: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_percussion_instruments

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  • Denvil@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My favorite percussion instrunment, “alarm device”

    Somebody had a fire drill during band class and said “write that down, write that down!”

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’m an amateur musician and can tell the difference between different kinds of saxomophone, between cellos and violas, and so on. But, there are a lot of things I’d just call “drums” that have specialty names. I mean, how many names are there for “large upright drum that you play with your fingertips and thumbs while it sits between your legs”?

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    • trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m new to saxomophone, any relationship with the xylophone?

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• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  *careless whisper* is a really weird way to spell Baker Street

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  • callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wow, I know the saxophone reference but clearly have never heard the actual song. That transition to and from the singer on acoustic is jarring. The sax part is completely put of place in this song. It feels like they out two completely separate ideas together and shrugged.

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• Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Squidward flute” made me cringe so hard I almost passed out. God please tell me none of you are actually that lame

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    no one is. this is the most ridiculous caricature I’ve ever seen and the immense snobbery of the so-called musician is unbearable. no one calls cellos violins. no one says Squidward flute. literally everyone knows what a saxophone is, no one says careless whisper, which hasn’t been nearly as popular and ubiquitous as it was decades ago. i wouldn’t be surprised if fewer people know about careless whisper than they do about epic sax guy from Eurovision.

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    • webpack@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      bruh my guitarist friend calls all the orchestral instruments “violins”

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• brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My wife and I like to call saxophones “sexy trumpets”

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  • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sexiphones

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mayonnaise.
  All of them.

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• Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sing us a song, you’re the plink-ploink man!

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  First of all, guy on the right isn’t just a non musician, he’s an ignoramus.

  Second, Careless Whisper is only the THIRD most iconic sax song after Baker Street and Run Away (Eurovision origin of Epic Sax Guy)

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• tibi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Keyboard players: keys for everything

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  • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    cherry mx or gateron?

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    • tibi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, the aspiring musician’s keyboard who can’t afford a real one

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The key-tar is an abomination. I have no clue why that thing was made.

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• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I didn’t see mayonnaise on either list?

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  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mayonnaise on an escalator.

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Shouldn’t cello be part of the “Squidward Flute” group?

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  • KellysNokia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I too confuse oboe and cello

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Me, a normie: Noisemakers

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Euphonium is a fun word.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Im pretty sure if the trombone is rusty both of those two can distinguish it from the others.

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Guy on the right doesn’t exist.

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