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Re: "Instrument" vs "Effect"
I love conversations like this!
Consider this:
Male vocal singing pre Mic/PA technology was mostly
done in falsetto. Why? A baratone male couldn't cut
through a band. This is the way it was. I believe
Bing Crosby was one of the first popular male singers
of modern times that sung in a natural range. Why?
Because he used an "effect." Tech. Lo-tech to our
rapidly cyborg approaching ways, but tech none the
less. It changed music... and then there was the
electric guitar....
--- Krispen Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> wrote:
> Yep, that's the beauty of language....we can do just
> about anything we want, but whether we'll be able to
> communicate with people is a different matter.
> Theoretically, we could redefine every word in our
> local language and be able to communicate, so long
> as we all carried our dictionaries around with us.
> There seems to be one common theme with this, which
> is that the closer we get to value-based, highly
> personal, or controversial subject matter, the more
> diverse or fuzzy become the definitions of terms and
> phrases. For instance, although we could force
> ourselves to do this, we probably wouldn't spend a
> whole discussion thread on what we mean by the term
> "red". Though, on a painter's forum, they might
> very well do this, going into different shades,
> whether burnt auburn is red, or whether certain
> shades are orange-red or reddish-orange, etc.
>
> So, how does one define "instrument" in this forum?
> I'd say the number of definitions is about directly
> proportionate to the number of people who would
> respond to that question...and then let the games
> begin! (Language Games, that is).
>
> Kris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Daryl Shawn
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 2:56 PM
> Subject: Re: "Instrument" vs "Effect"
>
>
> "Just linguistic gymnastics", says the
>
triple-axle-reverse-tuck-double-flip-360-degree-twist
> record holder?
>
> ;-)
>
> Daryl Shawn
> www.swanwelder.com
>
> We can define terms easy enough so that an
> effects unit is not an instrument...that's just
> linguistic gymnastics; but whether an effects box is
> an instrument in the same way as a guitar is a
> different matter. We are getting into categories of
> instrumnetation of varying degrees. Okay, it's half
> an instrument, and I'm half a musician by playing
> it. Heh heh....
>
> Kris
>
>
>
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