• @BertramDitore
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      1099 months ago

      This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen.

      • @RattlerSix
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        1339 months ago

        Unfortunately, tardigrades love the bass and cello and hate violins so the only way to get a photo of one playing the violin would be to fake it somehow

        • @[email protected]
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          349 months ago

          The bow is also on the wrong side of the bridge. Though now that I think of it, that might produce an even higher sound like you would expect of a microscopic violin?

          • Nate Cox
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            369 months ago

            He’s not even holding the bow at the frog. I’m beginning to question if he even knows how to play the violin.

            • @Viking_Hippie
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              239 months ago

              Look, he’s trying, ok? He only started learning last week and it’s an instrument made for a completely different physiology!

              • @[email protected]
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                59 months ago

                With all the legs and fingery things, I feel like tardigrades would probably be better at playing the world’s smallest clarinet.

                • @ripcord
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                  9 months ago

                  I think he’d do a superb job with @FlyingSquid’s trombone, too.

                  I mean, just look at him.

            • Billiam
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              149 months ago

              If you’re such a critic, you try teaching a tardigrade how to play a stringed instrument then.

        • @PlasticExistence
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          89 months ago

          I’d like to subscribe to your tardigrade facts newsletter, please.

      • themeatbridge
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        9 months ago

        I tried zooming in on the headstock to see which direction the tuners point, but the image is all fucky.

        On the shoulders alone, I’d say it’s probably a cello although there are basses with round shoulders.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        79 months ago

        Unless of course it’s made for a tardigrade which, like Donald Trump Jr, doesn’t have a chin to make a chin rest at all useful.