PSA · 4:55am Dec 27th, 2012
I just need to get this out for all of you who are misinformed. Octavia doesn't play a cello. I'm tired of seeing fics that call her a cello player. It's just sickening. She doesn't technically play a Double Bass either though. Octavia's instrument is completely unique. I has the size of a Bass, the head of a Cello, and the sound of an in between-ish instrument (provided that the animation is accurate to the actual fingerings). My best guess is that the animator (Sarah Jargstorf, Marco Li, Sebastian Lee, Graeme MacDonald, Stephanie Mahoney, Erica Pitt, Richard Rose, Holly Giesbrecht, Steve Wendel, or Jayron Zolfaghari) wasn't exactly musically adept. The ended up modeling the instrument off of the Cello, but made it too large and hence, forced Octavia to stand. Since this animator unintentionally created a new instrument, I unofficially dub it, the Octavius!
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