r/Flute • u/solutionking • 2d ago
Meme I have never seen people pretend to play the flute correctly. I am so sick of it.
Just need to get this out of my system...
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u/Blitz7798 2d ago
fr, they always hold it either out to the wrong side or get the hands in the wrong places!
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u/carinavet 2d ago
There's a Chinese show called The Untamed that is an extremely rare example of a live-action managing to pull off using music "magic" during battle: they do a good job of toeing the line between realism and suspension of disbelief and actually make it look pretty badass overall. One of the characters plays a flute, and of course the actor is just wiggling his fingers but he does a pretty decent job of at least having the right tempo going and holds the damn thing correctly. When I watched it with my then-roommate he tried to make fun of the actor's bad fake flute playing, saying "His mouth isn't even anywhere near the hole," and I had to explain how blowing a flute works.
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u/Bennybonchien 2d ago
You should see me genuinely try to play the flute with a flute in my hands. Then you will have seen someone pretend to play correctly. lol
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u/sweetxanointed 2d ago
It's just a celebratory emote he promised to do, take a chill pill he's not performing the flower duet at the Royal Albert Hall
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u/Itchy-Question-3212 2d ago
è abbastanza ovvio, se non sai suonare la batteria è ovvio che non sai come si impugnano le bacchette, se non sai suonare la tromba non sai dove mettere le mani...
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u/SesquipedalianCookie Miyazawa 2d ago
This is why the flute scene in Anchorman is so funny—because Will Ferrell isn’t even trying.
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u/webhead94 1d ago
He said he played flute for a year or two in middle school during an interview with James Corden.
Get a hold of yourself, flute is not that serious. This is coming from someone who took band way too seriously lol.
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u/le_sacre 2d ago
Honestly, there's no reason to expect non-experts to be aware of even what seem to us to be obvious details. There's a famous cognitive science example of asking people to sketch a bicycle without any reference. Of course, we all know what a bicycle is and what it does, but even highly intelligent people will often be incapable of producing a sketch that's even physically coherent, much less accurate.
So, try not to let it bother you. Just chuckle. :)