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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    1, because we do not play trumpet with our noses.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    It’s only blowing, not playing as it can’t reach the keys/buttons/whatevertheyrecalleds

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    They are called valves and not pushing any valves is called "playing open". It just produces the trumpet's harmonic series over its fundamental frequency, kinda like a bugle. Most trumpets are Bb trumpets, so dolphins could theoretically play all notes in that series. That's very hard and requires excellent lip control, of course.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    Cool, so it would have to be 1 then?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    No, needs to be 2. A dolphin's windpipe is not connected to their mouth, so they couldn't push air in 1.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So assuming the dolphin can keep it balanced, what’s the weight of a trumpet and the force of the air required to make a note?

    So many questions that I wasn’t expecting today.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They weigh about 1kg. The force of air is harder to answer as it's less about how hard you blow and more about how loose or tight your lips are around the mouthpiece. But since dolphins can blow water several meters into the air, I'd just assume they can produce more than enough force to make a note.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    It would have to be 2. The blowhole is where the dolphin breathes out, and it has the muscles to adjust airflow for embouchure, but I don't know if it can constrict and vibrate at the right frequencies to produce music.

    A dolphin's mouth doesn't have any lip control, even if it could breathe out. Which I don't think it can.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Wouldn't Figure 2 be like a person playing the trumpet with their nose? I'm not saying it's not possible, but...

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    If I'm not mistaken, dolphins can't physically breathe through their mouth. Like, their mouth doesn't have a tube that connects to their lungs. So figure 2 is the only way it could work.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    First of all, trumpet goes up the butt, it is tradition:

    Second of all, we already have 2 at home:

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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    You are and extremely talented painter in the year 1384, a skill that is extremely expensive and difficult to cultivate. How will you be remembered? Butt blast? Butt blasts!!!!!!!!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Well, a talented painter after 1600, but butt blasts indeed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He-gassen

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ..... he gassen. Idk 🤷‍♂️ what's going in 5he world

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Haha how did I never notice that before?? Maybe because the pronunciations are different I guess--the "he" part (pronounced hey) is the fart and the gassen (gahss-en) is like a battle or fight.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    1 humans dont play trumpet from there noses

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Do you play the trumpet with your nose?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Dolphins don't have noses, and their tracheas are completely separated from their mouths.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    Do dolphins get colds? How do they breathe when they have a plug of snot wedged in there?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago
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    Figure 2. Because its silly and I refuse to need a more elaborate reason in a shitposting sub.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Neither

    Brass instruments require the buzzing of lips in addition to the air in order to work. Since most of the dolphin's air comes out the blowhole, but that has no mechanism to vibrate like lips it's impossible.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Dolphins would probably prefer the saxophone

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They might play better with their butthole than these options.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    As so often: the truth is in the middle

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Teacher do dolphins have embouchres

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago
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    Like this, according to some expert in this field:

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Second one but it would be fashioned as a hat or an underwater helmet.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    With their hands and lips, obviously… idiot

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Out the blowhole

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  • 3=1+2 self duet you ever think of that

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago
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    A dolphin would shove the trumpet up its cloaca (I think they have cloaca's) because they're horny monsters.

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