Edit: The end product of suffering...
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The real difference is that Jonathan Frakes actually knows how to play trombone, and pretty well. Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner don’t play their instruments at all.
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I want the prequel where Riker was in a ska band
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Trombone lips spread hips
IT GETS LONGER TO HANDLE HARDER BLOWS.
No big surprise that Riker plays an instrument based on rythmic thrusting.
An artist commits.
Riker plays a complex instrument with no fixed resonant settings where your arm extension and lip tightness determines the note and your breath drives the volume. It is an instrument you play with your entire body.
Data plays an instrument with no fixed positions that requires careful control. It's an instrument capable of playing multiple notes at once, but requires neither lips nor lungs, perhaps indicating his slight lack of humanity.
Picard plays a recorder using someone else's hands:
Riker plays the bone
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But is it rusty?
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A day late, but relevant.
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