To get twitchily annoyed when someone playing a piano in a movie...

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... isn't actually playing it? Not so bad if the camera angle doesn't show their hands but, if hands are on display, it is NOT OK to just flap them vaguely about over the keys and think no-one notices.

AIBU or was it a mistake to open the Baileys early..?

This is something we cringe about as a family since long ago (mother is a pianist)

There was a stonking example of that 'sway about in the stool loads' piano fakery in Columbo last week

She got murdered, served her right.

YANBU. I feel the same watching people tap dancing on TV and it is obvious that the sound has been added later since it doesn't correspond with what the feet are doing.

Sometimes it is quite handy not to be able to play an instrument, as I can remain calm in my ignorance.

Incorrect armaments in war films wind up my dad and brother, they don't bother me either. DD's horsey friend points out incorrect tack, that I am blissfully ignorant of...

But the other day I was watching The Tudors and they had tapestries in the background that were all faded as we see them today but, of course, would have been new and vividly coloured in the Tudors times! That annoyed me a bit.

That is one of my pet hates too. I'm a string player and get so annoyed when someone is "playing" an instrument and just moving a bow up and down the strings willy nilly without even moving their other hand.

Surely there must be some actors who cold play the part and the instrument too!

Not getting the detail right is infuriating. I hate it in music, furnishings, art, and most of all manners. So often just plain wrong.

Why don't they just have a piano with no parts that make the piano work.

That way the actor can push the keys, no sound and look authentic.

Forty people who can play would still notice the random pressing of keys wouldn't make the music being played.

I've seen that in some cases but then the hands are playing high up on the keyboard when low notes are sounding so that annoys me just as much!

Thank you fellow musical grumpies. I also watched the shoulder rolling, stool-swaying 'performance' on Columbo, and YY to the non-synchronised tap-dancing as well. It's just careless. I suppose doctors can't watch medical dramas or police officers crime dramas for the same reasons ... but the hand-flapping, non-piano-playing when they could cut the shot off short of the hands.... gah!!!

Then again... when an actor is actually playing the guitar/piano/violin/whatever (or has at least listened to the bloody music so that their hands are in the roughly the right position) I do appreciate it.

Glad to hear there are other people like me. Ny OH just says "Oh it doesn't really matter - I can't tell the difference" - but it matters to me!

Now you have made me want Baileys!

It matters. Like polishing the Dick Van Dyke English accent should have mattered to the Disney organisation and didn't. (Or not having raccoons scampering wild round central London in 101 Dalmatians)

I know little about music so can ignore those quite easily, but anything with cameras/darkrooms being done inaccurately winds me up. Saw one once where they were pretending to develop colour photos in a dark room with the red light on!

I guess it's like me watching Strictly and thinking that someone has danced quite well, then they get torn to shreds by the judges for some minutiae which I would never had noticed

I definitely get annoyed when they get my specialist subject wrong.

I used to parachute jump.

I can't watch those stupid scenes without cringing at the "mistakes", like when they are both free falling and start talking to each other!

A nicer one though - I'm a quilter so if there's a patchwork quilt in a scene I have to pause the film to study the pattern!
I have been known to get a paper an pens and quickly draw a chart of patterns & colours.
DH is delighted with this of course!

I can tell you a few films that feature lovely quilts. it's a useful skill.

YANBU

I feel the same about people pretending to play violins.

And pretending to knit.

Typing bothers me, when they randomly bash all the keys.

yanbu. My dh has now got to the point of saying 'is he actually playing that?' every time a pianist or strings player appears on screen in order to pre-empt my inevitable rant

Off the top of my head, the only time I can ever remember saying 'yes, definitely' was when it was Hugh Laurie on screen.

I am the same when people are knitting or sewing...

YANBU. If they've spent gazillions on special effects, costumes and so on, they could at least have put a bit of effort into getting the knitting/piano/violin done properly too.

Violins are even more annoying. The bowing drives me nuts.

Nope drs can't watch medical dramas (with the noble exception that was ER) as every single word is utter tripe. Even worse, patients think it's accurate and then expect a miracle.

Sewing aggravates me as well - why do they always have their embroidery in a frame but floppy? The whole point of the frame is to pull it taught like a drum. An honourable exception is the film Bright Star who got someone from the Royal School of Needlework to do all the sewing scenes. Unfortunately this just proves in can be done so the others now annoy me even more!

YANBU. I find it irritating when they need to use the computer and they type lots on the keyboard for a task you'd use the mouse for. Usually in crime type dramas. Surely almost everyone knows how to use a computer?!