19 memes to prove musicians have a warped sense of humour
18 November 2020, 17:39
A celebration of the jokes we love to share, and our strange muso brains.
We love to share funny memes in our choir cliques, our string squads. But take a step back and think, our sense of humour is quite warped isn't it? I mean, with any other audience, all these classical music jokes would fall ♭.
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Other people probably just don't get us
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And our intense love for anything that has a harmonic pun.
Enharmonic car. Picture: Twitter / Janet Horvath -
And if there’s ever an innocent typo, how we laugh!
1000-year-old Beethoven. Picture: Facebook / Duo Lamorniana -
“Wait, humans don’t have six fingers!”
*laughs hysterically in musician*
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We like to make fun of other voice parts (for some reason)
Sopranos. Picture: Facebook / Ethan Canner -
And instruments other than our own (but obviously, mainly violas)
Take it away, violinist Ray Chen....
BEST VIOLA JOKE (said to a violist)
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It’s impossible for us not to laugh when talking about violas (for some reason)
Try Not to Laugh: VIOLA JOKES Edition
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Why is it always so funny? We are strange creatures.
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If you ever want to impress a musician, just notate something. They always find it funny.
Sneeze transcription. Picture: Instagram -
We also love jokes about not counting
Rests. Picture: Facebook / Joao Duarte -
So much humour with Bach
gotta be classy #theBACHlorette pic.twitter.com/ktCrdnhzV9
— Orch Dork Problems (@orchdorkprobs) August 10, 2014 -
Because, you know, it also sounds like the noise a dog makes
Because it's #NationalDogDay.
— Opera North (@Opera_North) August 26, 2015
Dog: '#Bach'
Humans: 'He's classically trained.'#CartoonAtNoon #DogDay pic.twitter.com/OSS2zu0gZW -
And chickens too
Bach Bach Bach. Picture: Facebook / Dynamic Rhythms -
Whenever something looks like a piano keyboard, we lose our minds
Piano socks. Picture: Twitter -
We’d be like “finally, a piano I can easily transport”
Piano shadows. Picture: Reddit / Elextrix_ -
We structure so many jokes around the assumption we were talking about this century...
Beethoven 1700s. Picture: Reddit / THECLASSICMAN320 -
Because jokes about the 1800s never date.
'80s music. Picture: Tumblr / lingling40hrs -
In terms of our brand of comedy, hand sizes are everything.
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And the best punchline to literally every musician joke?
