Instruments
Submitted 7 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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unreachable@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Haha. The seal really sells it.
KellysNokia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Seal of approval 🦭
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day
lunarul@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think non-musicians can tell a cello from a violin and a tuba from a trumpet.
pocopene@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Exactly. This is not a musician vs a non musician, but a musician vs a 5 years old.
GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 7 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.
PsyKiere@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve had multiple people call my baritone saxophone a trumpet… It’s funny and sad everytime
meep_launcher@lemm.ee 7 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.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
But can they tell a violin from a fiddle?
Nomad@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They’re only fiddles if you want to play in a band in Texas
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 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.
candybrie@lemmy.world 7 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.
lunarul@lemmy.world 7 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.
rtxn@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Never look up the Hungarian name for the bassoon.
Moops@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I love blowing my Fagott.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Oh no
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Same in most languages (a variation of fagott).
teft@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I only recognize one epic saxophone guy and it isn’t george michael.
ArkhamNightshift@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Thought for a minute you were going to say Sexy Sax Man youtu.be/GaoLU6zKaws?si=jdPgpAw12HX0YqzP
merc@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
You’d best recognize Leo Pellegrino
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Wait, that’s neither John Coltrane or John Zorn.
hperrin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My sister plays both the violin and the big violin.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Simultaneously??
homesnatch@lemm.ee 7 months ago
My sister is the big violin.
ZealousSealion@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
People: “This is a xylophone.”
Musicians: “It’s metallic, hint hint.”
People: “Yes, it’s a metallic xylophone.”
Musicians:
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Glockenspiel is just fun to say though…
Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 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
Denvil@lemmy.one 7 months 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 7 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”?
trolololol@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m new to saxomophone, any relationship with the xylophone?
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 months ago
*careless whisper* is a really weird way to spell Baker Street
callouscomic@lemm.ee 7 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.
Vespair@lemm.ee 7 months 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 7 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.
webpack@ani.social 7 months ago
bruh my guitarist friend calls all the orchestral instruments “violins”
brown567@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
My wife and I like to call saxophones “sexy trumpets”
0ops@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Sexiphones
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Mayonnaise.
All of them.Comment105@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Sing us a song, you’re the plink-ploink man!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 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)
tibi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Keyboard players: keys for everything
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
cherry mx or gateron?
tibi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ah, the aspiring musician’s keyboard who can’t afford a real one
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The key-tar is an abomination. I have no clue why that thing was made.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 7 months ago
I didn’t see mayonnaise on either list?
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 7 months ago
Mayonnaise on an escalator.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Shouldn’t cello be part of the “Squidward Flute” group?
KellysNokia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I too confuse oboe and cello
Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Me, a normie: Noisemakers
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Euphonium is a fun word.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Im pretty sure if the trombone is rusty both of those two can distinguish it from the others.
Mango@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Guy on the right doesn’t exist.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 7 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.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s almost as much work as learning it!
crawancon@lemm.ee 7 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.
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 7 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.
OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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TassieTosser@aussie.zone 7 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.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s harder when playing plinky plonk though.
oldfart@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yeah, that’s why I’m stuck playing with one hand, never properly learned notation