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What is an instrument?

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blindsuperhero:
So it doesn't work by plucking strings, the length of which is determined by holding the strings down behind frets?

Because if so, wow.

Addius:
I wouldn't claim that just because something is a digital or electric instrument they don't pass as instruments. I would on the other hand claim that if they do not work in the same way as the original instrument then no, it isn't the same instrument. Take the case of the guitar. The "guitar" that bucky referred to is, in my oppinion, not a guitar as such, but an electric guitar.

Ofcourse I'm not a bitch that goes around and tells people that they should call it a electric guitar, just calling it a guitar is much more practical. Yet if you want to refer to the instrument you'd probably refer to it as an electrical guitar and not as a guitar, since there are important differences between them.

My own two cents

blindsuperhero:
As I far as I can tell, no-one was saying they weren't instruments, just that an electronic keyboard wasn't a piano. Which it isn't.

Mnementh:

--- Quote from: bucky_2300 ---This is a Line 6 Variax Modeling guitar. It is powered by batteries or a plugin, has no pickups or sound hole. It works entirely differently than an acoustic or electric guitar. It is in essence a guitar that imitates the sounds of many guitars and instruments.  Is it still a guitar? I think so.
--- End quote ---


You're actually proving my point.  If I stripped my guitar of it's pickups, I could still strum it and it would make recognizable guitar sounds through the vibration of strings set up in a manner that identifies it as a guitar.  I could play chords, and while they are not amplified, they will sound nearly identical to a chord played on the acoustic.  Anything that happens after that to change the sound is processing.  The difference between a keyboard and piano still stand.

bucky_2300:
^ Okay, I was thinking that you were referring to other differences between the instruments.

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