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Apr 25, 2021, 10 tweets

Line of Duty characters as orchestral musicians: a thread 🧵

Kate Fleming: French horn. Dependable. Fearless. Mad transposition skillz. Good company in the pub.

Ted Hastings: double bass. Longest serving member of the orchestra. Knows the minutest intricacies of every score better than any conductor.

Chloe Bishop: 2nd violin. Recruited straight out of music college. Outrageously talented. Never puts a foot wrong. Everyone would hate her if she wasn’t so lovely. Team Chloe.

Steve Arnott: viola. Excellent all round musician. The ultimate team player. Likes a pint or three after a concert.

Patricia Carmichael: cor anglais. Enjoys committee meetings. Complains to management about people being untidy in shared dressing rooms. Makes passive aggressive comments about other people’s intonation. Terrorises new players.

Jo Davidson: 1st violin. Competent, but an absolute mess of nerves.

Ryan Pilkington: trumpet. Doesn’t speak to anybody outside of the brass section.

Farida Jatri: cello. Practises 6hrs a day. Constantly worried about getting fired for no real reason. Loses all her pencils.

Andrea Wise: trombone. It is rumoured that she once smiled briefly a few years ago, but no photographic evidence exists. Absolutely everybody is terrified of her, especially the conductor.

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