How much do our tools limit us?

["Travis Hartnett" <hartne.t@apple.com>]

I sit in front of the harpsichord, Bach sits in front of the harpsichord. 
We both play.  Who's to blame for the results?  Not the poor harpsichord.


TH

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>From: Andreas Willers <AWillers@compuserve.com>
>To: "INTERNET:Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com" 
><Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
>Subject: Re: New looping pedal--Line 6 DL-4 Delay Modeler.
>Date: Wed, Jul 28, 1999, 4:28 PM
>

> -------------------- Begin Original Message --------------------
>
> Message text written by INTERNET:Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>
> "I sit in front of the piano, Bach sits in front of
> the piano.  We both play.  Who's to blame for the results?  Not the poor
> piano.
> "
>
>
> -------------------- End Original Message --------------------
>
> Bach bloody INVENTED the piano while everybody around him thought you'd
> never be able to improve such a perfect instrument like the harpsichord.
> Probably pianos sounded horrible in the first 150 years or so. Electric
> guitar is still just hardly a grown up instrument and I am happy that I 
>can
> decide easily by myself what pickups to stick into it.