They have to play in pairs
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Its obviously number one. How can they hold the trumpet while blowing if not in the beak, mouth or whatever its called.
Your lips do important work in making a trumpet play. Dolphins don't have the fine control over their lips that would be necessary. Maybe the blowhole does?
Idk about dolphins, but I really don't have great control over my blowhole...
Bro, you never skip Kegel day.
distant sound of something similar to someone blowing over the top of a coke bottle
That's how I found my wife.
I mean, you toot with your mouth, not your nose, so 1.
When I toot, it's neither with my mouth nor my nose.
A dolphin would likely play something more like a trombone with an articulating system of pipes that could be played through vigorous contortions of the body. Think playing a trombone but with a hula hooping/swimming motion. Perhaps a small lever could extend out to the dolphin flipper that would allow nuanced fine pitch control with lateral contortions of the dolphin’s flipper.
Depends on how they're wearing their pants.
Why not both at the same time?
Lung capacity
From what I know about dolphins, they're more likely to fuck it than play it.
As far as I know now just dolphin's~
That's either a tiny dolphin or a massive trumpet
Bro they only play the tuba, it is known
Unlike most of these sorts of things, this one has a definite answer: 2. They cannot blow air out of their mouths. However, since they have no hands to work the valves, it wouldn't sound too good, assuming they could get it to stay in place to begin with.
Valves aren't needed to "sound too good", they're needed to get more notes. Without valves, you've still got the harmonic series. Any piece played on bugle could also be played on trumpet. And the majority of classical compositions up until the late 19th century. (All classical compositions until the early 19th century.)
Good to know. Could a dolphin blow different notes with its blowhole?
Probably not. I'm not a brass player or a marine biologist but as I understand it the way a brass player's embouchure works would not be replicable by a dolphin's blowhole (it's not just "send air through the tube", it's more like blowing a raspberry). They wouldn't be able to play any note, let alone different notes.
assuming they could get it to stay in place to begin with.
Perhaps the mouthpiece would serve as a "flared base," as it were.
We might have bigger problems if you've been inserting the flared base first.
... there is another ...
"a butt tuba" spelled backwards is "a butt tuba"
abut ttub a
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Spoiler tag maybe
Knowing about dolphins - neither, they would just fuck it.
Neither! Just air moving through the trumpet doesn't make noise. You go brrrrrrrrr into the mouthpiece with your lips to produce sound.
It's more like pfffff rather than brrrrrr but yeah.
Couldn't they play two at once?
No, they are unable to breathe through their mouths at all. Their respiratory system is bonkers compared to other mammals. Their blowhole is one nostril,which is used for breathing , while the other nostril is located in their skull and is used for echolocation and vocalizations.
Could you?
Of course 💨