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Adolphe Sax was a Belgian inventor and musician who created the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846. He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn and saxtuba. He played the flute and clarinet. He was eventually bankrupted by lawsuits brought against him by competitors challenging his patents, and he suffered disfiguring accidents, assassination attempts and a cancerous tumor on his lip.

sunshinerotting

ever since i was a child ive had a headache

what if. our toes kissed at the crocs store

moriemur

flyingboatfortressthingy

putting my head through a table because I miss the crows cast from the Shadow and Bone TV show

whimzzzyarts

I need them back!! 😭 I want to see them love and fuck around with each other again!

six-0f-hoes

i miss them so much i want to jump in front of a bus

casualclassical

"Oh Freddy"

-me, after practicing Chopin

howtomusicmajor

Five Things that Happen to ALL Music Majors

Freaking out about music theory homework. EVERYBODY does it. The freaking out, I mean. Some people don’t do the homework, but that is not a Successful Strategy. That is how you get to take even more music theory because you didn’t pass. And the thought of not passing is what is causing you to gently hyperventilate when you stare at your worksheet, wondering who the hell is Tristan and what does he have to do with these Germans you teacher was talking about during your 8 am. (It was early, you weren’t paying very much attention.)

Crying in a practice room. Practice rooms are theoretically soundproof, they have no windows or windows that are easily covered, and no one questions why you’d be alone in there for a while. Whether it be a few tears of frustration or an actual, bawling, red-eyed, messy tantrum, every music major will cry in a practice room at some point.

Performing a concert when you should honestly probably be hospitalized. I once sang in a composition recital with a compress still around my arm from the antibiotic IV I’d been on 45 minutes ago. Was this a good plan? Probably not! Eventually you will have undiagnosed walking pneumonia, or awful tonsilitis, or an ankle that’s so twisted it’s almost on backwards, and you’ll do a concert anyway. It’s best to do this during your undergrad, so your teacher can yell at you and shame you into not doing it again.

Teaching your first student and having NO CLUE what you’re doing. So! Students are weird and not at all as simple as your pedagogy class led you to believe! Fear not, though, brave musician, for everyone who now teaches had a first student too. And honestly, everyone else was confused too.

Knowing what probably caused those stains in the music lounge and falling asleep there anyway. Seriously, they’re a weird kind of tan-ish brown, they’re on the couch and the floor, and just. Just gross. So gross. And yet, the couch is disgustingly comfortable, you’re running on four hours of sleep because of your theory homework, you’re fighting off a cold so you aren’t sick for a concert, you’ve already taught a lesson today, and if you don’t sleep Bach is going to make you cry. So you fall asleep on the sketchy couch anyway. Congratulations, you’re now officially a Music Major.

putting the cutie in executie

#dutch langblr

thetophasntcalledyet

Omg nee ik haat spookhuizen

#Letterlijk mijn reactie #Widm #😭

thedickcavettshow

hurdy gurdying or gurdly hurdying? 🤨

maculategiraffe

okay so giftwrapping. what is the way

nicely wrapped in pretty paper with neatly tucked corners and matching ribbon

patterned paper, reasonable corners, some kind of bow (stick on)

paper and tape, no bow

festive bag with attractive matching tissue paper artfully tufted

bag with tissue paper. artfully tuft it yourself birthday boy

bag. no paper

concealed from view in some way when handed over

not concealed, just handed over. it's a great gift why would I cover it up

left lying out somewhere conspicuous

other / nuance / depends

Voting ended onJan 1, 2025

#If its a birthday present #Bag and tissue paper #If its a christmas present #Wrapping it to the best of my abilities (admittedly not very great) with festive paper #I'll add a bow/ribbon if im feeling nice

culmaer

B-mol in Afrikaans means "B-flat". B is obviously "B" and mol means "flat"

but B-Moll in German means "B-flat minor", because B actually means "B-flat" (and "B-natural" is called H) and then Moll means a "minor key"

to say "B-flat minor" in Afrikaans, you'd have to use B-mol mineur

neither should be confused with bémol in French (or bemol in Spanish), which simply means "flat". to say "B-flat" it's si bémol, since they use the solfège names instead of letters, and to say "B-flat minor" is si bémol mineur

in Dutch mol does mean "flat", but they call "B-flat" Bes, and thus "B-flat minor" is Bes mineur. unless you're in Belgium where you can use si mol and si mol mineur instead, or si bémol like the French, but that would be too straightforward

st4rm41d

they finally invented an assignment thats not due tomorrow. but the problem is that my body is a machine that turns assignments into assignments due tomorrow