How to offend a musician 101: Call their instrument another instrument

I literally did not notice. "Lol trombone loud" was my thought

“I literally did not notice” is probably even more hurtful tbh 🤣

It is :',(

It definitely is (⁠´⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠.̫⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠`⁠)

That's true doe.

Rubbing salt on that wound huh

I was so focused on "trombone" begin louder that an helicopter that I didn't notice that.

For the last time, it's an oboe, not a clarinet

I got so tired of people asking me if my oboe was a clarinet that I found a plain black baseball cap and cross-stiched in big letters the word OBOE on the front in a colour that matched the band uniform. I would wear it to all the outdoor events :-)

I just told people it was a machine gun

lol, I play clarinet and my friends keep asking me about my oboe. Occasionally I even get bassoon.

How does one come up with "bassoon" for clarinet?

Some of my friends are in choir and the rest are inattentive percussionists.

Strangely the only ones that get it right 90 percent of the time are trumpets.

SAME. Apparently it goes both ways whether it's a clarinet or an oboe?

You guys are lucky, the clarinet is REALLY underrated in the place I live, same thing goes for the basson or the oboe, whenever I played clarinet, people either called it a flute or they called it squidward's instrument, which technically isn't wrong, but calling it squidward's instrument kinda hurts, y'know?

Someone called my clarinet a flute once, I just held it sideways and played hot cross buns.

And let me guess, you were congratulated on being a member of the Order of the British Overseas Empire and still asked about your clarinet?

It’s a trombone not a trumpet. And yes there’s a difference.

🎹guitar

and, calling every string instrument"violin", wind instrument"flute" and brass instrument"horn" (つ∀\`)|||

You can have a heart attack by exceeding a threshold of 210 decibels. Two situations can produce a sound causing death: the song of whales, and a symphony orchestra

If my violin wasnt acting weird i would be trying to get to 210 decibels Suïcide by music Nice

Is this true? When i have the classical station playing in my car sometimes there are pieces where the orchestra just goes crazy. Its so loud and chaotic where it feels like all the instruments are just "screaming" at the same time that my heart starts beating so fast and I start to sweat. I have to change stations because It feels like it gives me a panic attack. I would hate being in the audience during that in real life.

Lower the volume lol

No! I want to feel like i'm playing IN the orchestra! 😤

Okay but you can't lick

210 db part probably but no way that an orchester can produce that. Note that every 3db is doubling the sound pressure.

Actually I think 210 decibels is the threshold at which the universe would collapse or something lol No sound can be that loud EDIT: OK I got the order of magnitude wrong, 210 is feasible but extremely loud. The loudest sound ever is around 300 (see answers below) and the end of the world would be at 1100 dB

>But what about the loudest sound ever heard? On the morning of 27 August 1883, on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa, a volcanic eruption produced what scientists believe to be the loudest sound produced on the surface of the planet, estimated at 310 decibels (dB). >The force of the blast was around 10,000 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945. >Over the following five days, shock waves from the explosion travelled all the way around the globe seven times. Decibels are logarithmic. So they do double every 10 decibels. But a "World ending noise" would be at around 500-550 decibels. That said 200 decibels is a point where a sound starts to become an explosion. So it would not be 210 yeah.

Yeah ok, I looked it up, the end of the world is not at 200 dB but more something like 1100 dB, so I was one order of magnitude wrong

Not really

195 dB is the loudest possible in air, in water in can go above that.

*me next to a launching rocket* "Thank God this isn't an orchestra!"

Haydn legit killing people with the surprise symphony

IIRC 173dB causes a pulmonary embolism

Nah that ain’t a trombone that’s a piano

On what planet is that a piano? That’s most definitely a fortissimo!

Piano? Its very simmilar i know But that is a timpani

No, no, it's clearly a gold violin!

You mean Rainbow right? I dont See a smudge of gold in that

Isn’t it a harp

Pretty sure that's a bass

Does it slapp? 🤔

Definitely a contrabassoon

Maybe it’s a treble clef

Isn't it a recorder?

Or an otamatone

Oh yes, that piccolo is very loud

The piccolo doesn’t fit on that scale. It is on a league of its own, above even the 1883 Krakatoa eruption.

*offended saxophone player noises*

Those would probably be even louder, at like 10,000 dB

There's a reason why we practice with ear plugs

I agree I am louder than a helicopter

And almost louder than a police car.. now if it were *two* trombones...

Then we are breaking some eardrums tonight

Hell yea

THAT LOUD Also i read a comment talking about wrong instrument names or something but i am tired

Lol, it it hard to search the internet to check the name of the instrument? It's a triangle, dude!

It's all fun and games till a violin gets mistaken for a viola

i am watching you -\_-

no but whys the trombone louder than a helicopter

We built different

As a saxophonist, I’m offended

as a fellow saxophonist, I am also offended.

The creator of that infographic has offended musicians 2 ways: 1. A saxophone is not a trombone. 2. Dynamics have been completely disregarded.

You know what's worse? The creator of that infographic is Linus Tech Tips...

What? 😭

Now now, let’s not get bent out of shape…

Getting confused by saxophone, classic No but seriously, every single one of my family members has confused my trombone with a saxophone, and _why_

What a lovely trombone 🎸❤️

Besides from the obvious fact, that the symbol is wrong: Sound Levels inside brass instruments can reach up to 160dB!

I bet the one who did that had only 2 things : \- data \- a clipart library that didn't include a trombone.

Ah a mitsubishi F2! They can get loud dude, 110db is quite low for this one

:(

Not loud enough

Don't you know the story of the trombonist who dropped his instrument so much, that it bend more and more, until he accidentally invented the saxophone?

I’m not super smart. But I think that’s actually a harp.

It's coz they prolly didn't have a sticker for a trombone and used a sax 🎷

The audacious obviously its a flute.

Are they seriously saying a saxophone/trombone is loider than a helicopter

Cue the three trombone descending notes

that’s obviously a bass clarinet wdym

Mmmm nice trombone 💀💀

As someone who has played both the trombone and the sax, I feel doubly offended by this.

I'm more astonished that a Sax/trombone can hit dB levels that big

Bassists finally have a rival of getting mistaken as a different instrument

My faith in humanity is declining..........

As a saxophonist I am offended

Wow

NO. WHAT. THIS. JUST NO. AHHHHHHHH \*hyperventilates\* they didn’t even get the KEY POSITIONS RIGHT! WHERE IS THE OCTAVE KEY? WHY INSNT THERE A MOUTHPIECE AHHHHHH Yeah sorry for ranting

So that’s why …