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> Is your instrument male, female or gender-less?, And why?
What gender is your instrument?
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Male [ 16 ] ** [27.12%]
Female [ 9 ] ** [15.25%]
Gender-less [ 12 ] ** [20.34%]
Dont' be silly, it's an inanimate object [ 22 ] ** [37.29%]
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katemorrisviolin
post Mar 27 2012, 10:28 AM
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My violin is male and I cannot explain why. Maybe something to do with the sound of it, it's a sweet but strong sound. I've noticed since I've been coming to these forums that some musicians give names to their instruments like they are a person....I wonder if professionals do the same thing or if it's the habit of keen amateurs!
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post Mar 27 2012, 11:20 AM
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I've voted male - for my voice!

Otherwise I'd say they're all inanimate. Similarly I don't like the nonsense of ships being female.
Looking at the actual words I suppose you could argue that my viola is feminine (because it ends in an a), my piano is masculine (because it ends in an o), and as for my organ . . .
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post Mar 27 2012, 11:20 AM
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Gender-less, all my instruments. I'm terribly unromantic when it comes to things like that! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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post Mar 27 2012, 11:58 AM
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I spend a fair amount of time blowing down various well crafted lumps of wood. I suspect I'd be accused of being ever so weird if I were to assign gender to any of them....
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post Mar 27 2012, 12:03 PM
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Gender-less, definitely! Whilst I love my saxes and piano (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) , it's taking things much too far to ascribe gender to them....
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post Mar 27 2012, 01:07 PM
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Gender-less - I don't give cars or anything like that a gender, or even a name. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)
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post Mar 27 2012, 03:31 PM
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Male. My violin is the only 'object' I own which has a name, but it suits him down to a t!
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post Mar 27 2012, 04:11 PM
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Male violin.
I've always been in love with my violin and all of my violins have been male.
I'm straight so my other great non-violin loves have also all been male. But I've
never fallen out of love with my violin even though the others have come and gone (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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post Mar 27 2012, 04:14 PM
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My violin doesn't have a gender or a name yet. Maybe its because we both know its only a stop gap cheapy till I can afford to buy a better instrument, or maybe its because I'm only a beginner and we haven't worked each other out yet.

Yes I'm one of those very sad people that names pretty much everything, my car, my ipod, my computer, the spider that lives on my ceiling (Fred)... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)
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post Mar 27 2012, 05:50 PM
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My bassoon is obviously female, and is known as "Big Bertha" As a woman of a certain age, I think I identify with her temperament and mood swings, and in light of her age, I'd say she's probably menopausal (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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post Mar 27 2012, 06:03 PM
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QUOTE(bassoonista @ Mar 27 2012, 06:50 PM) *

My bassoon is obviously female, and is known as "Big Bertha" As a woman of a certain age, I think I identify with her temperament and mood swings, and in light of her age, I'd say she's probably menopausal (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)


Take part in the poll bassoonista, so far we've got no female instruments!!!
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post Mar 27 2012, 06:06 PM
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Never really thought about it but if I had to assign a gender (on pain of death) I'd say:

flute - female
cello - male
piano - hermaphrodite

purely because of their range.
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post Mar 27 2012, 07:19 PM
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My viola is female and her name is Hannah. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (yes I voted)


From being a very small child I have assigned gender, names and personalities to the things I keep around me. That does include my car. It's just a feeling I get when I get to know something.

My relationship with my musical instruments is a very intense one but overall a very loving one and they mean the world to me. It's an unspoken thing - I don't talk to them or cuddle them (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) but I know when our relationship is having a good day... or not (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Mar 27 2012, 07:24 PM
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Gender-less - I've only ever named one object and that was a car which was known as "Emma" and that was purely becasue the reg included EMA.

Prosaic huh? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

Pedantically, two: I have a moose/elk that sits on the settee and it's always been known as Elkie-moose (strange things you buy in Ikea.....)
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post Mar 27 2012, 08:39 PM
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I haven't voted because it's sort of half-and-half for me.

My current piano is an "it". It's definitely a "thing".

However a grand piano which I have fond memories of is "Gustav".

My horn was "Barney", but isn't any more. It's now an "it".

But I may just not be good at naming things. I used to have a cat named "Cat" and my current cat thinks her name is "Cat" because "name" is "that sound you make at her just before she gets food".
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