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These never-fail musician chat-up lines will improve your love life

Pick-up lines are not natural for music geeks, so we've assembled the best surefire chat-up suggestions for classical musicians everywhere. Please note: success and lasting happiness not guaranteed.

1. Diatonic scale

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2. Fate

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3. Fermata

Are you a fermata? Because I want to hold you.
4. Nielsen

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5. Take 5

Do you like Dave Brubeck? 'Cos I think we need to Take 5.
6. Classical beauty

Were you born in 1789? Because you're a real classical beauty.
7. Ternary

Would you describe yourself as ternary? Because you have a lovely form.
8. Broken

You're so beautiful, you make me feel like an arpeggiated chord... broken.
9. Minimalist

Are you a piece of minimalist music? Because I keep seeing you again and again.
10. Prestissimo

You must be marked Prestissimo... because you're dashing.
11. Natural

You must be a C major scale... All natural.
12. Pretty Sharp

Would you like to borrow my tuner? You're looking pretty sharp to me.
13. Modulation

I'm considering a modulation... Because I want to come up to your level.
14. Perfect

Did you just move from chord V to chord I? Because I think you're perfect.
15. Anacrusis

Is that an anacrusis? Because you're about to hear a pick-up.
16. Development

Enough exposition. Let's move this to the development section.
17. Tremolo

My bowing arm is pretty sore... Because you just made me tremolo.
18. Accent

Ooh, I love your accent. What is it, agogic?
19. Fugue

Is that a fugue I can hear? Because we're about to get entangled
20. Counterpoint

Did you just move from the subdominant to the supertonic? Because I think you're my perfect counterpoint.
21. Stretto

Did someone just begin a stretto section? Because you're really leading me on.