Euphonium is a fun word.
Mayonnaise.
All of them.My wife and I like to call saxophones “sexy trumpets”
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…
“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”
Keyboard players: everything is keys
The key-tar is an abomination. I have no clue why that thing was made.
cherry mx or gateron?
Sing us a song, you’re the plink-ploink man
I didn’t see mayonnaise on either list?
Shouldn’t cello be part of the “Squidward Flute” group?
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)
I think non-musicians can tell a cello from a violin and a tuba from a trumpet.
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’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.
But can they tell a violin from a fiddle?
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.
They’re only fiddles if you want to play in a band in Texas
Or an Irish band. Or a maritime Canadian band. Or a folk band.
or on the roof
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.
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.
That’s harder when playing plinky plonk though.
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.
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.
That’s almost as much work as learning it!
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
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”?
I’m new to saxomophone, any relationship with the xylophone?
I don’t know, you’d have to ask the expert.
My favorite percussion instrunment, “alarm device”
Somebody had a fire drill during band class and said “write that down, write that down!”
*careless whisper* is a really weird way to spell Baker Street
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.
Me, a normie: Nerdy noisemakers
