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You won’t get 20/20 on this quiz if you don’t know your musical abbreviations
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This musician edition of Would You Rather is completely excruciating
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Everyone is saying this pianist gave the greatest best man speech of all time

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We challenged one of the Classic FM team to make one of the most complex cakes in the world – the opera cake

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An *oboist* inhaled helium and played a virtuosic Mozart concerto

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This trombone fail will make you laugh and then immediately feel awful for laughing

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This oboe soloist’s reed SNAPPED mid-solo, but he recovered like a pro

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This vocalist flawlessly SINGS the most difficult jazz saxophone solo of all-time
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This 12-year-old cellist writes and plays his own compositions and they are phenomenal

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Alto saxophonist shares his astonishing trick for playing 128 notes in an octave

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