Talk:Taschenphilharmonie

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Did you know... that the Taschenphilharmonie, called the world's smallest orchestra, earned prizes for classical music embedded in narration for young children?

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Lower case "die" in title

I see no case (pun) for making this lower case. The main word "taschenphilharmonie" is lower case, no problem. But their own website calls themself simply "taschenphilharmonie", not "die taschenphilharmonie" or even "Die taschenphilharmonie". I think we need to either (a) get rid of the definite article altogether, or (b) if we must have it, make it "Die". -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 19:36, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The German article has "die taschenphilharmonie", their website "die-taschenphilharmonie" has the same for contact, - I bet they were founded that way. Question is if we should help them to redefine that? The article causes a problem in every sentence with declination, as they probably found out by now. We have Taschenphilharmonie, - should we make that the article name? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:39, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be happy with that. I mean, if they want to stylise themselves in all lower case, there's no law against that, but it creates all sorts of problems if we slavishly copy them. Let's move it. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 22:21, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How many members?

Since they have been called the world's smallest orchestra, wouldn't it be apropos to state how many members are in the orchestra?

Possibly a comparison statement/sentence saying something like "The taschenphilharmonis has x members as compared to the average orchestra size of y."

Just a thought. 2600:8800:50B:6700:C23F:D5FF:FEC5:89B6 (talk) 01:02, 25 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In one of their publicity photos I count 19 players + conductor, which may or may not be representative/accurate/up-to-date. But I don't think they're literally claiming any record for fewest members - I think the intent is to interpret "small" in several ways at once. (Child-friendly concerts, small orchestra, a non-imposing presence compared to the big-name large orchestras, etc.) TooManyFingers (talk) 20:08, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

They play according to the music in a project, so the number of players ready to perform is not the same as the number actually playing. When I took the pic, they were nine + the conductor. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:44, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]