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 think non-musicians can tell a cello from a violin and a tuba from a trumpet.
Exactly. This is not a musician vs a non musician, but a musician vs a 5 years old.
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.
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.
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.
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
Holy shit, 13 years ago… I feel like that dude at the end of the Last Crusade.
You’d best recognize Leo Pellegrino
