• CubitOom
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    974 months ago

    Trumpeters often don’t use their nose to play.

  • @samus12345
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    4 months ago

    Unlike most of these sorts of things, this one has a definite answer: 2. They cannot blow air out of their mouths. However, since they have no hands to work the valves, it wouldn’t sound too good, assuming they could get it to stay in place to begin with.

    • @bcgm3
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      94 months ago

      assuming they could get it to stay in place to begin with.

      Perhaps the mouthpiece would serve as a “flared base,” as it were.

    • @Etterra
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      84 months ago

      TIL that dolphins are incapable of being mouth breathers.

    • Zagorath
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      34 months ago

      Valves aren’t needed to “sound too good”, they’re needed to get more notes. Without valves, you’ve still got the harmonic series. Any piece played on bugle could also be played on trumpet. And the majority of classical compositions up until the late 19th century. (All classical compositions until the early 19th century.)

      • @samus12345
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        24 months ago

        Good to know. Could a dolphin blow different notes with its blowhole?

        • Zagorath
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          24 months ago

          Probably not. I’m not a brass player or a marine biologist but as I understand it the way a brass player’s embouchure works would not be replicable by a dolphin’s blowhole (it’s not just “send air through the tube”, it’s more like blowing a raspberry). They wouldn’t be able to play any note, let alone different notes.

    • @Vlixz
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      24 months ago

      As far as I know now just dolphin’s~

    • @beebarfbadger
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      14 months ago

      When I toot, it’s neither with my mouth nor my nose.

  • THCDenton
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    84 months ago

    Knowing what I know about dolphins it would probably just try to fuck it

    • @marcos
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      44 months ago

      They could just easily use it to hit each other.

  • @[email protected]
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    54 months ago

    Your lips do important work in making a trumpet play. Dolphins don’t have the fine control over their lips that would be necessary. Maybe the blowhole does?

  • @[email protected]
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    44 months ago

    Its obviously number one. How can they hold the trumpet while blowing if not in the beak, mouth or whatever its called.

  • PSoul•Memes
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    44 months ago

    Bro they only play the tuba, it is known

  • @Wilzax
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    34 months ago

    That’s either a tiny dolphin or a massive trumpet

  • @troglodytis
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    24 months ago

    Depends on how they’re wearing their pants.