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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

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 vampire, Adam.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 55 points 2 months ago

That's almost as much work as learning it!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 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.

[–] CodexArcanum 11 points 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.

[–] AnUnusualRelic 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's harder when playing plinky plonk though.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 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.

[–] unreachable 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Anticorp 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Haha. The seal really sells it.

[–] KellysNokia 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Seal of approval 🎷🦭

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day

[–] lunarul 36 points 2 months ago (13 children)

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

[–] pocopene 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] GlendatheGayWitch 2 points 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.

[–] PsyKiere 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] rtxn 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Never look up the Hungarian name for the bassoon.

[–] Moops 14 points 2 months ago

I love blowing my Fagott.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 11 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Same in most languages (a variation of fagott).

[–] teft 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] ArkhamNightshift 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit, 13 years ago... I feel like that dude at the end of the Last Crusade.

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[–] hperrin 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My sister plays both the violin and the big violin.

[–] Viking_Hippie 3 points 2 months ago

Simultaneously??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

My sister is the big violin.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People: "This is a xylophone."

Musicians: "It's metallic, hint hint."

People: "Yes, it's a metallic xylophone."

Musicians:

[–] AngryCommieKender 4 points 2 months ago

Glockenspiel is just fun to say though.....

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_percussion_instruments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My favorite percussion instrument, "alarm device"

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] pyre 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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 or plinky plonk. 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

bruh my guitarist friend calls all the orchestral instruments "violins"

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[–] edgemaster72 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 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 out of place in this song, or the singer is. It feels like they put two completely separate ideas together and shrugged.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My wife and I like to call saxophones "sexy trumpets"

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Mayonnaise.
All of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn't see mayonnaise on either list?

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[–] Lemminary 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Me, a normie: Nerdy noisemakers

[–] tibi 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Keyboard players: everything is keys

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Viking_Hippie 3 points 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)

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn't cello be part of the "Squidward Flute" group?

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