Elegant Classical Musician

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Maybe the way she can handle the instruments. Maybe her skilled hands, the way she blows that oboe or the sound she makes when the song is about to climax. Whichever it is, there is something about playing instruments that really pulls men's strings.

Apparently, men aren't so uncultured if the culture is served by a hottie.

Elegant Classical Musician applies to all female classical musicians no matter what instrument they are playing. Might apply to male classical musicians too.


Examples of Elegant Classical Musician include:

Anime and Manga

  • Pictured above: Although not exactly intended for the guys, Michiru of Sailor Moon definitely counts.
    • Michiru's girlfriend Haruka counts as well since she's seen playing piano alongside Michiru and does it rather nicely.
  • Roughly half of the cast of Nodame Cantabile, most notably Miki Kiyoura.
    • The other half are guys. And several of them are hot too.
    • Nodame herself would probably qualify, if she wouldn't make silly faces while playing.
      • Well, there are many fans who find her silly faces pretty cute in their own way, so...
  • Okay, they don't play classical music, but the girls from K-On! look very nice playing their instruments. Especially Mio on bass.
  • Kahoko Hino of Kiniro no Corda plays the violin with the help of magic, and manages to attract a hoard of Bishounen while she's at it.
  • Male examples (gasp!): Choutarou Ohtori and Yuushi Oshitari from The Prince of Tennis. Both are handsome, promising violinists as well as excellent tennis players.
    • Many fans consider Tarou Sakaki (who makes double work in Hyoutei as tennis coach and music teacher) to be an older case of this.
  • Another male: Haji from Blood Plus.
  • And another - Austria from Axis Powers Hetalia, anyone?
  • In Clannad (both anime and game), Kotomi Ichinose is a really cute violin player. Even when, well, she SUCKS at playing.
  • Another "pretty but sucky player" case: Shirabe from Mahou Sensei Negima. Her music can shatter stone.
  • Misaka in episode 19 of A Certain Scientific Railgun does a violin solo. Bonus points as it was the ending tune and one of the few time she wears something other than her school uniform; a white flowing dress.
  • Quon Kisaragi from RahXephon. Naturally, since she's the Ms. Fanservice of the show.
  • Nozomi from the Elfen Lied manga aspires to become one of these (of the opera singer kind), despite her father's objections and tremendous abuse.
  • Both main characters (Hiroki and Sayuri) in The Place Promised in Our Early Days play the violin- she plays a certain song for him, he later learns it and plays it himself.
  • Henrietta from Gunslinger Girl may qualify. She carries her main gun in a violin case a la the Mafia, and plays the violin quite well. Then again, she's only about eleven...
    • Claes loves to play the piano, but being one of Henrietta's kind she is not much older.
  • Kimagure Orange Road: Madoka Ayukawa plays Piano, Saxophone, and Guitar with skill enough to make her a professional musician with any one of them. She's a not halfway bad Idol Singer when in a pinch, either.
    • It's In the Blood, actually: Madoka's mother (implied to be a Hot Mom, but never clearly seen) is a famous classical violinist and her father is an equally well-known conductor, so she learned from the best.
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion has Shinji Ikari playing the cello. Although it doesn't particularly make him more attractive than usual to the viewer, hearing his performance does elicit some rare genuine niceness from Asuka as she notes he's really skilled with it.
    • The first part of Evangelion: Death and Rebirth has several of the Children playing instruments.
  • A pre-teen version (who is still, uhm... Younger Than They Look) is Ai Shinozaki from Hell Teacher Nube. At the age of 12-13, she's a genius violin player as well as Tall, Dark and Bishoujo. And a Lonely Rich Kid Stepford Smiler who's possessed by a demon due to her loneliness and emotional turmoil.
  • Another male version is Hijiri Minase from Yami no Matsuei, a Teen Genius violinist who is the Dude in Distress from the Devil's Thrill arc.
  • One for each gender, in Marmalade Boy: Kei Tsuchiya is a handsome boy that plays the piano, Anju Kitahara is a Yamato Nadeshiko who plays violin.
  • The twelfth Detective Conan movie, Full Score of Fear, has two very Tall, Dark and Bishoujo opera singers in the middle of a case where two musicians are killed off. There's also a beautiful Woman in Black who's a violin player.
  • Seraphim from Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? plays the violin and later leads her fellow vampire ninjas in closing the gates to the underworld; bonus points for them being in Maid costumes.
  • Dimitri from Kurobara Alice was an opera singer in the past. Alice (his beloved Agniezska's body, animated by the soul of a young woman named Asuza Kikukawa) is a talented pianist.
  • Trowa and Quatre gender flip it, playing flute and violin, respectively, at the end of an episode of Gundam Wing. This is perhaps just more fuel for fan girls of the pairing.
    • Quatre is also a skilled piano player, bonding with Noin over a sonata that he plays in the Sanq Kingdom school.
  • Ayane and Kou from Rouge Noir. Ayane doubles as Sensei-chan since she's a music teacher.
  • Seika "Mariana" Akishima from Amakusa 1637, a prospect opera singer who's pretty famous in her school as such. Her beautiful voice is showcased when she reunites with Natsuki and Eri in the past, via singing to them from the boat she's in so they can recognize her.

Comic Books

Film

  • Kara Milovy (played by the hotty tottie Maryam d'Abo) from The Living Daylights.
  • Dana Barret from Ghostbusters
  • August Rush: Evan's parents are both definitely this, but his mother, with the fingers, and the strings, and the touching... And look how into it she is.
  • Madeline in Electric Dreams.
  • Male version: Daigo from Departures plays the cello.

Literature

  • Fenchurch from So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
  • Marianne Dashwood of Sense and Sensibility, a talented pianist.
  • Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A male example, but it definitely counts. Vivi's boyfriend attracts the attention of everyone everywhere ever because he just looks and sounds so pretty when playing his fiddle. It's also used to demonstrate what a gentleman he is; there's a very touching scene where he dedicates a song to Vivi's unattractive, unloved mother and nearly makes her cry with happiness.
  • A male example with Milton Stephanides in Middlesex; he uses his skills to seduce Tessie. They then go on to take it Up to Eleven, using it in sex, or at least, foreplay.

Live-Action TV

  • Leslie Winkle both plays it straight and lampshades it in The Big Bang Theory.
  • Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip has an example.
  • Emma from Heroes.
  • Frasier had a couple, notably a cellist he meets at the airport.
  • If you've watched Wings for more than five minutes, you know Helen is a cellist.
  • Star Trek: Voyager. Handsome Lech Tom Paris finds out that his friend Harry Kim is doing music practise with a good-looking female crewmember and derides her as having "cold hands, cold heart". Harry smirks and replies "Not when she's playing the oboe."

Theatre

Video Games

Web Comics

  • Jigsaw Forte, professional violinist turned Last Res0rt Executioner.

Web Original

  • Codex from The Guild was a concert violinist, and plays her violin with the door open to try to get the attention of her attractive neighbor.

Western Animation

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