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From: Michael Will
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 08:47:26 -0700
Subject: Re: Amplified

Douglas Tate wrote:
>
> Yesterday I ended up a post with:::
> ##########
> >>..... when I say the harp has the widest range of sound and expression of
> any non electronic instrument. and the electronic instrument sound is pretty
> poor even though
> it has variety, it's dead.

> the electronic instrument sound is pretty poor even though it has
> variety, it's dead.
>
> Remember, harp is not electronic instrument.????
> Therefor this does not refer to the harp but electronic instruments

> Douglas T

Okay, here's the rub. Outside of live, unamplified performances, music
is reproduced electronically. Be it from your CD player, tape deck,
radio, or computer. And I'm not prepared to say that all electronic
sound is dead. The "instrument" factor is vague and imprecise (in
American English, the only true English ;-)--for it's hard to tell if
and when recording and/or playback devices become instruments. A
synthesizer, sequencer, sampler? A multi-track tape deck? Your
stereo? After all, it generates music (from electronic signals).

It's hard for me to say a well recorded acoustic instrument played back
electronically is either 1) not an electronic sound, or 2) dead.

So, it's also hard for me to say that a well synthesized acoustic sound
played back electronically is dead of necessity.

Cheers!
- --
..Mic'l

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