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@Alivrah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 2 years ago

If humans had 4 arms, we'd probably have some pretty wild musical instruments

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If humans had 4 arms, we'd probably have some pretty wild musical instruments

@Alivrah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 2 years ago
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  • @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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    If I had 4 arms id eat a sammich and drink some chocolate milk while i fap.

    • @witx@lemmy.world
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      Take the upvote. For some reason you taking over his ideia this way made me laugh uncontrollably.

  • @spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    11•2 years ago

    Imagine a one-man band, except he’s two bands.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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    8•2 years ago

    Have you seen an organ? It’s basically several keyboards stacked on top of each other, including a single-octave one for your feet.

    • @TwoCubed@feddit.de
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      Now imagine that, but stack a set of drums on top. Maybe even add 2 additional legs while we’re at it!

  • @kholby@lemmy.world
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    Like the Antagonistic Undecagonstring?

    • @3DKungFu@lemmy.world
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      I clicked hoping to see a Hydrogen Sonata reference and was not disappointed.

  • @DrQuint@lemmy.world
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    You’re saying we don’t already?

    Hit it Joe!

    • @Late2TheParty@lemmy.world
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      https://youtu.be/rUOlnvGpcbs

  • @TastyWheat@lemmy.world
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    3•2 years ago

    Straight Goro-guitarin’

  • BrooklynMan
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    the skin flute would be even more popular!

  • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    We’d also be forewarned.

  • @Dagnet@lemmy.world
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    Or we could just keep playing the piano

  • SokathHisEyesOpen
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    If humans had 4 arms we’d need 8 pants pockets! We’re going to need bigger butts along with the arms to accommodate all of those pockets.

    • @Divinitous@lemmy.world
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      We’re working on the butt part already.

  • Bleeping Lobster
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    To take it further, if humans had 4 arms, our heads would be a different shape, because we’d need more brain to control them. AFAIK that would mean a bigger back of head (cerebellum) and a bigger forehead (frontal lobe).

  • @Knusper@feddit.de
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    1•2 years ago

    Yeah, with electronic help, like a looping device or just recording different tracks one after another, you can obviously do amazing things, but you end up lacking a lot of flexibility to quickly improvise or adjust yourself to what’s happening in the other voices.

    Having said that, in an orchestra, you don’t really want most of the instruments to go wild, so simple instruments would still be a thing. Even today, there’s lots of instruments where one hand just holds the instrument.
    I guess, with 4 arms, you could attempt to play two violins at the same time, though.

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