OK, I had a hard day at work with a coworker yesterday (I hate to call him a colleague). Luckily, it was session night, so I felt much better by the time I had gotten home.
I was thinking that this is the only group I could write this to who would understand what I meant:
My coworker is driving me crazy. So I’m going to go to my session to vent and blow my brains out.
What other euphemisms can we use for playing, especially flute or whistle? As in flute tone, noir is good!
Toot? 
At the moment, all the ones I can come up with are far too racey, LOL!
Whew! I’m switching to iced coffee…
Toute suite! (or toot sweet)
This one time, at band camp…
Aren’t instruments fun?? 
Although it’s not directly about tone or playing, I love the terms “tune cannon” and “stick” applied to the timber flute.
Tune cannon… I like it!
Speaking of instrument labels, whence came the habit of calling a guitar (and later, any other
instrument) one’s “axe”? e.g., “Wait, let me tune my axe.”
In the world of jazz, “axe” can refer to any instrument. (I don’t the the origin of the applying the term to musical instruments, though.)
Thus:
I’m just assuming that it started with the guitar, though that may be untrue.
Duh. 
I usually tell Mrs. D that I’m going into my sons room to “do my thing”.
She just smiles and does her thing - MTV .
Works for us 
Slan,
D.
On occasion at bar gigs, when it’s time to get going I’ve said to the other band members, “Well, let’s go charm the masses.”
If you know anything about the usual experience of playing ITM in US bars, THAT’s a euphemism if ever there were one.
What a coincidence – the first session I ever went to, I took my oboe. By about 11:30 pm, there weren’t many people left (it was a Wednesday), and I had a woman dancing on the table, while I played pseudo snake charming music.
Way to go.
That’s my kind of Bar
Slan,
D.
Some people call their Prattens the “Honker.”
I named mine An Casúr, or “The Hammer”.
Pianists have been known to tickle the ivories.
A clarinet might get called a licorice stick.
Drummers have been known to massage the skins.
Sax players occasionally honk.
Piping is sometimes known as milking the goat.
With some piper’s its more like Killing the Cat.
I’m not familiar with this one. More commonly it is referred to as choking the goose, strangling the chicken, or wrestling with the octopus. 
djm