RE: Guitar-o-centrism

[Reginald Hunt <rphunt@tiac.net>]

This is where things go awry. A piano is not plain or old. Guitar or an
ancestor thereof may go back to the bow and arrow, depending on the music
history version you subscribe to. It's a primal and fundamental way to make
a pleasant noise, back there with the drum (maybe that's why they both
symbolize Rock Music). 

Piano is a horrendously complex contraption that helped introduce the
Industrial Age. Try to make a piano with a stick and rubber band and get
back to me.


Reg


At 05:27 PM 2/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm bothered by the statement that rock is the dominant form of music
prevalent today.
>
>The guitar is and will always be somewhat prevalent throughout a number of
musical perspectives but I highly doubt that rock dominates things say from
a universal springboard of ideas and origin of musical 
experience/exposure. 
>
>I think it is more of a Western and overly Euro-American perspective that
thinks Rock moves in ways nothing else does or can.
>
>I think if there is one instrument that actually dominates anything in any
particular music's origins it is the Piano (IMHO) - not a synth, not a
sampler or even a violin,  just a plain old piano.
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