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orhtej2 @eviltoast.org

2w ago

Doot doot

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1, because we do not play trumpet with our noses.
- Dammit I really wanted to well actually to brag about my friend's nose whistle act. SHE IS SO COOL
- Speak for yourself
- Dolphins aren't mouth-breathers though.
  
  They seem to move their mouths to speak. That implies they are mouth breathers

- Yep, Futurama would never fuck up the science

It’s only blowing, not playing as it can’t reach the keys/buttons/whatevertheyrecalleds
- 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.
  
  Cool, so it would have to be 1 then?
- You can still play. Just only a few notes.
  
  Whereas fish can play scales?

Wouldn't Figure 2 be like a person playing the trumpet with their nose? I'm not saying it's not possible, but...
- 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.
  
  Can confirm
  
  Oh, I didn't know that!
- Jip their blow hole is just their nostrils that moved up to the top of their head over generations.

Here's a carp playing a Western concert flute:

First of all, trumpet goes up the butt, it is tradition:
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Second of all, we already have 2 at home:
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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!!!!!!!!
  
  Direct butt-to-butt warfare, no trumpets - just like it used to be back in the day.

Do you play the trumpet with your nose?
- Dolphins don't have noses, and their tracheas are completely separated from their mouths.
  
  Superior design.

1 humans dont play trumpet from there noses
- I shoot music out my blowhole.

No

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.

Dolphins would probably prefer the saxophone

Figure 2. Because its silly and I refuse to need a more elaborate reason in a shitposting sub.

I think number 2 would be more effective
- played trumpet, the air helps but i dunno.. no functional lip interfaces on either orifice... the blow hole still has the most promise.
- Are you saying you know from experience??
  
  Purely internet pseudo knowledge

1, because 2 sounds& looks like this.

They might play better with their butthole than these options.
- gonna need a shit valve on that horn

As so often: the truth is in the middle
- the forehead?
- It's all lead to butt tuba.

Like this, according to some expert in this field:

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

Teacher do dolphins have embouchres

Both.

Out the blowhole

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

With their hands and lips, obviously… idiot

2 thats the mouth

orhtej2@eviltoast.org Yes.

A dolphin would shove the trumpet up its cloaca (I think they have cloaca's) because they're horny monsters.

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