Instruments
Submitted 2 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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unreachable@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Haha. The seal really sells it.
KellysNokia@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Seal of approval 🦭
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day
lunarul@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think non-musicians can tell a cello from a violin and a tuba from a trumpet.
pocopene@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Exactly. This is not a musician vs a non musician, but a musician vs a 5 years old.
GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
PsyKiere@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve had multiple people call my baritone saxophone a trumpet… It’s funny and sad everytime
meep_launcher@lemm.ee 1 day 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.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
But can they tell a violin from a fiddle?
Nomad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They’re only fiddles if you want to play in a band in Texas
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
candybrie@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
lunarul@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
ZealousSealion@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
People: “This is a xylophone.”
Musicians: “It’s metallic, hint hint.”
People: “Yes, it’s a metallic xylophone.”
Musicians:
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Glockenspiel is just fun to say though…
rtxn@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Never look up the Hungarian name for the bassoon.
Moops@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I love blowing my Fagott.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Oh no
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Same in most languages (a variation of fagott).
brown567@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
My wife and I like to call saxophones “sexy trumpets”
0ops@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Sexiphones
Vespair@lemm.ee 1 day ago
“Squidward flute” made me cringe so hard I almost passed out. God please tell me none of you are actually that lame
pyre@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
webpack@ani.social 1 day ago
bruh my guitarist friend calls all the orchestral instruments “violins”
teft@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I only recognize one epic saxophone guy and it isn’t george michael.
ArkhamNightshift@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Thought for a minute you were going to say Sexy Sax Man youtu.be/GaoLU6zKaws?si=jdPgpAw12HX0YqzP
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
You’d best recognize Leo Pellegrino
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Wait, that’s neither John Coltrane or John Zorn.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Mayonnaise.
All of them.hperrin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My sister plays both the violin and the big violin.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Simultaneously??
homesnatch@lemm.ee 1 day ago
My sister is the big violin.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 days 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
Denvil@lemmy.one 2 days ago
My favorite percussion instrunment, “alarm device”
Somebody had a fire drill during band class and said “write that down, write that down!”
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 days 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”?
trolololol@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m new to saxomophone, any relationship with the xylophone?
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 days ago
*careless whisper* is a really weird way to spell Baker Street
callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 days 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.
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Sing us a song, you’re the plink-ploink man!
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Euphonium is a fun word.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
It comes from the Latin root Euphonious meaning “sweet voiced”
tibi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Keyboard players: keys for everything
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
cherry mx or gateron?
tibi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ah, the aspiring musician’s keyboard who can’t afford a real one
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The key-tar is an abomination. I have no clue why that thing was made.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 days 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)
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I didn’t see mayonnaise on either list?
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 day ago
Mayonnaise on an escalator.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Shouldn’t cello be part of the “Squidward Flute” group?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Me, a normie: Noisemakers
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Im pretty sure if the trombone is rusty both of those two can distinguish it from the others.
Mango@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Guy on the right doesn’t exist.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 days 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.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s almost as much work as learning it!
crawancon@lemm.ee 2 days 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.
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 2 days 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.
OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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TassieTosser@aussie.zone 2 days 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.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s harder when playing plinky plonk though.
oldfart@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Yeah, that’s why I’m stuck playing with one hand, never properly learned notation