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Do you think of musical instruments as being either "girl" or "boy" instruments?

Asked by JLeslie (65412points) July 6th, 2014

I ask this question, because of an earlier question that you can see here about girls playing football and boys playing an instrument like a flute. It never occured to me before that Q that some instruments are seen as “girl” instruments. I googled a little and see this idea is indeed supported, but many people in discussions about it pointed out many famous male flautists.

Do you think of instruments that way? Do you have a story of boys being given a hard time for playing a girl instrument (whatever instruments those are. I don’t even know. The only ones I can think of are maybe a tambourine or a harp). I guess I can admit that most drummers I know are male, but even then I would not think it odd for a girl to want to play the drums.

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