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[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 131 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That is not a horn. Purple correctly identified it as a trumpet.

[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's pretty common to call all wind instruments horns in a band context, it is a trumpet but most musicians aren't going to be mad at calling it a horn. Still a bad pick up line

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Trumpeter here, I'd be insulted if I was called a horn. Might be regional, but that's not common here. If we're speaking about horns, it's only French horns

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Another trumpeter here. If it was a wind instrument that didn't have a reed it was called a horn.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 11 hours ago

The piccolo flute is a horn?

[–] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't brass more commonly used?

"Brass" "woodwind" and "Percussion" were the clinical anatomy textbook words and "horn" "wind" and "drum" were the casual everyday words.

[–] executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Trumpets are stored in the horns

[–] Malpraxion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn't look like that article says anything about trumpets to me. It does link to this article about horns, though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_(instrument)

That one says:

In horns, unlike some other brass instruments such as the trumpet, the bore gradually increases in width through most of its length—that is to say, it is conical rather than cylindrical.[1]

Which seems to specifically exclude trumpets from horns.

Most of these horn sections feature some combination of saxophones, trumpets and trombones.

Also the popular music section includes two photos with people playing trumpet and lists a bunch of horn sections, most of which contain trumpets.

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Enh, in my experience "horn" refers to a French horn, but "horns" refers to all brass (separate from woodwinds, percussion, etc).

But yeah, if somebody referred to a horn, I'd assume they meant French horn.

Well, yeah...you play the horn, you aren't a horn yourself. Horns don't even have thumbs.

In my experience its very common, just to give a counterpoint. "Bring in the horns" to denote a trumpet heavy section, or just referring to the brass section as "the horn section". 8dk might just be reguonal i guess but its colloquial.

Can agree. Where I live horn only refers to Alto Horns. Trumpets are something different.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Absolutely no offense intended... But you sound like an asshole

[–] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How do you think a guitarist would feel if you called their instrument an ukulele?

Differently, because that's a poor analogy. Trumpets are horns, guitars are stringed instruments. Now, if they called their trumpet a kazoo, it'd be time to throw down.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Is it a tiny guitar?

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Davie504 calls all instruments basses

[–] ouRKaoS 2 points 1 day ago

A ukulele is just a soprano bass

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, fuck paraphyletic groups!

[–] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just like phylogenetics and moleculargenetics are both biology, but astrophysics is not, though all 3 are natural sciences.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I was more thinking along the lines of birds being dinosaurs and humans being apes. Also you are a fish.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No. Tubing and curl is wrong. It's not quite right for a trumpet either, but having 16 pixels doesn't give you much room for accuracy, I guess.

Looking at the size of the cone it could be one.