1 humans dont play trumpet from there noses
I shoot music out my blowhole.
First of all, trumpet goes up the butt, it is tradition:
Second of all, we already have 2 at home:
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!!!
Well, a talented painter after 1600, but butt blasts indeed.
Direct butt-to-butt warfare, no trumpets - just like it used to be back in the day.
Back and forth, forever
Here’s a carp playing a Western concert flute:
They might play better with their butthole than these options.
gonna need a shit valve on that horn
Both.
Like this, according to some expert in this field:
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
A dolphin would shove the trumpet up its cloaca (I think they have cloaca’s) because they’re horny monsters.
Dolphins would probably prefer the saxophone
1, because we do not play trumpet with our noses.
Speak for yourself
Dolphins aren’t mouth-breathers though.
They seem to move their mouths to speak. That implies they are mouth breathers
Dammit I really wanted to well actually to brag about my friend’s nose whistle act. SHE IS SO COOL
Yep, Futurama would never fuck up the science
Teacher do dolphins have embouchres
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?
No, needs to be 2. A dolphin’s windpipe is not connected to their mouth, so they couldn’t push air in 1.
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.
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.
But enough force to lift the trumpet perhaps?
They could lean against a cliff or something when playing, no?
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.
You can still play. Just only a few notes.
Whereas fish can play scales?
This comment with this username chef’s kiss
3=1+2 self duet you ever think of that
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
username checks… eww omg
Just researched this and apparently there has been at least one recorded case of a dolphin mouth-breathing. It likely only occurs when there’s something seriously wrong with the blowhole, but it can be done!
now i need to see a diagram/x-ray of how it’s laid out
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.
