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Euphonium is a fun word.
It comes from the Latin root Euphonious meaning "sweet voiced"
People: "This is a xylophone."
Musicians: "It's metallic, hint hint."
People: "Yes, it's a metallic xylophone."
Musicians:
Glockenspiel is just fun to say though.....
Mayonnaise.
All of them.
My wife and I like to call saxophones "sexy trumpets"
Sexiphones
"Squidward flute" made me cringe so hard I almost passed out. God please tell me none of you are actually that lame
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.
bruh my guitarist friend calls all the orchestral instruments "violins"
that still goes against the image...
I think non-musicians can tell a cello from a violin and a tuba from a trumpet.
I've had multiple people call my baritone saxophone a trumpet... It's funny and sad everytime
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.
Appalls. Unless I've missed a new slang word for getting into drag.
Exactly. This is not a musician vs a non musician, but a musician vs a 5 years old.
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.
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.
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.
I found this video and I really wouldn't be able to tell if it was just sound. I think I have like 2 categories I can reliably do for strings: bow or not.
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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.
That's almost as much work as learning it!
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.
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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Sing us a song, you're the plink-ploink man
Keyboard players: everything is keys
cherry mx or gateron?
Ah, the aspiring musician's keyboard who can't afford a real one
The key-tar is an abomination. I have no clue why that thing was made.
Im pretty sure if the trombone is rusty both of those two people can distinguish it from the others.
(... then again, the adjacent color there is some shitty shade of green so ... kinda, I guess?)
I didn't see mayonnaise on either list?
Mayonnaise on an escalator.
Never look up the Hungarian name for the bassoon.
I only recognize one epic saxophone guy and it isn't george michael.
Thought for a minute you were going to say Sexy Sax Man https://youtu.be/GaoLU6zKaws?si=jdPgpAw12HX0YqzP
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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
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