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Ahem: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7342168.stm FOR THE BOYS... electric guitar 81% bass guitar 81% tuba 77% kit drums 75% trombone 71%
Only one in 10 school harpists and flautists are male, while the electric and bass guitars are enjoyed overwhelmingly by boys.
There are many reasons why strides made in bringing equality to other areas, such as school sports, have not reached the music room, says Professor Sue Hallam, co-author of the report. ...
AND THE GIRLS... harp 90% flute 89% voice 80% fife/piccolo 79% oboe 78%
― Mark G, Friday, 11 April 2008 11:33 (seventeen years ago)
...because so many great pop stars started off in school orchestras...
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 11 April 2008 11:35 (seventeen years ago)
See, the kids I know (my own, and their friends, all girls)
Piano, Guitar, Violin.
― Mark G, Friday, 11 April 2008 11:35 (seventeen years ago)
Our school orchestra, as a rough reckoning given we're talking thirty-odd years ago, was about 80% girls.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 11 April 2008 11:37 (seventeen years ago)
girls need not frets.
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 11 April 2008 11:39 (seventeen years ago)
I've never met a male harpist or flautist.
Unfortunately, I played guitar I played guitar unfortunately in school band. I was just thinking yesterday how I wish I'd gone with trumpet.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 11 April 2008 11:41 (seventeen years ago)
The electric guitar is still seen as a male instrument, despite great exponents in recent years like Nancy Wilson of Heart and Charlotte Hatherley of Ash.
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 11 April 2008 11:42 (seventeen years ago)
Hi everyone, my name's Tom Geoghegan and I think that school music lessons are the predominant influence on the wide world of music
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 11 April 2008 11:44 (seventeen years ago)
Um.
― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 April 2008 11:45 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.therunaways.com/newsite/imgs/Albums_disc/runaways.jpg
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 11 April 2008 11:50 (seventeen years ago)
Thank god All About Eve are here to explain things.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 11 April 2008 11:53 (seventeen years ago)
I've never met a male flautist.
Hi dere. Or at least I used to be.
― Mark C, Friday, 11 April 2008 11:58 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.rickmcgrath.com/rockconcertphotos/ian_anderson.jpg
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 11 April 2008 12:02 (seventeen years ago)
pic caption:
"Miss, miss, I play flute!!"
― Mark G, Friday, 11 April 2008 12:08 (seventeen years ago)
Right. I knew that.
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― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 11 April 2008 12:09 (seventeen years ago)
And flutes are pretty big in military music too, so hundreds of years of tradition for male flute players.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 11 April 2008 12:11 (seventeen years ago)
James Galway and his top three hit.
― aldo, Friday, 11 April 2008 12:16 (seventeen years ago)
The junior school at which my wife teaches has a concert at the end of each year, and most of the time it's girls playing flutes and violins and such like, along with a few nerdy boys playing Casio keyboards. Last year, however, some of her class of Yr 6 kids (10 to 11 years old) put together a band of guitar, bass and drums and played "Seven nation army". I think the bass player was a girl then.
― Rob M v2, Friday, 11 April 2008 12:34 (seventeen years ago)
What is she now?
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 11 April 2008 12:43 (seventeen years ago)
I kinda asked for that, didn't I?
― Rob M v2, Friday, 11 April 2008 12:52 (seventeen years ago)
I was about to suggest that if you wanna meet some male flautists, join your local Orange Lodge, that's where Jimmy learned
― Tom D., Friday, 11 April 2008 12:58 (seventeen years ago)
B Gillespie: "See me, ah tried tae get auld Roland Kirk tae join the East Kilbride Lodge but he telt me, eh son, see that Inflated Tear, ah'm gaunnae inflate it tae a black eye if youse dosnae shut it! An' he nivvir gie me back my Sherbet Fountain slide whistle either!"
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 11 April 2008 13:01 (seventeen years ago)
B Gillespie: "Aye, fuckin' tried playin' the flute wi' his neb, so he did, clatty bastard"
― Tom D., Friday, 11 April 2008 13:04 (seventeen years ago)
R Kirk: "Whit's a' the fuss aboot they sashes onyways?" *rapidly chased out of town*
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 11 April 2008 13:26 (seventeen years ago)
R. Kirk: "Ah'm no wearin' a fuckin' bowler hat, who'd ye think ah um? Acker Bilk?"
― Tom D., Friday, 11 April 2008 13:29 (seventeen years ago)
In general, guys have bigger hands making guitar easier to play.
― Dewey B., Friday, 11 April 2008 15:13 (seventeen years ago)
Why don't Drag Queens play Guitar? - apparently.
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 11 April 2008 15:15 (seventeen years ago)
guitar hurt my fingers and i hated the callouses
― bell_labs, Friday, 11 April 2008 15:30 (seventeen years ago)
best guitar player in chicago right now is female.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 11 April 2008 15:36 (seventeen years ago)
also my piano teacher yelled at me because the calluses clacked on the keys
― bell_labs, Friday, 11 April 2008 15:37 (seventeen years ago)