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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Having a great relationship with your luthier is so SO important, so here’s a story about Mark @ProArteLondon who looks after my bows 🧵
I am hugely clumsy. A few weeks ago I managed to hit my beloved Hill bow on the kitchen counter and was horrified to discover a tiny, TINY chip of wood had come out of the tip. I found it on the floor. It was literally a fraction of a millimetre wide.
Here’s the complication: I have a cat. People will tell you cats are clean animals. Those people have not met my cat. Teddy is an unholy messy eater. I could not be 100% sure that this tiny piece of wood was not, in fact, a tiny piece of dried up cat food.