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Jan Christian Meyer bassoon
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Answered Jan 12, 2014 page 91

No, I think computers are musical instruments,
complementing the other ones, like musical instruments
do. I reckon that manipulating a thing to make sound for a
musical purpose makes that thing a musical instrument, so
computers can be musical instruments too, if you want to
use them for that.

Even if it were already possible to accurately simulate the
sound of every other object you can hit, pluck, stroke,
scratch, stretch, blow air or shout through, I believe that
managing, say, a computerized bassoon simulator would
be a very different skill from playing an actual bassoon, and
then people would still continue to enjoy learning the latter,
to be able to play without configuring any complicated
software. This does not ruin the position of any instrument,
computer or otherwise; a program could surely be very
useful also, for musicians who can make use of that instead.

Music is an art form, I don't think there is a race in
which alternative techniques compete to make each
other obsolete.

Josh Freckleton rendered
obsolete
Jan 12, 2014 Glossary on
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But certain instruments have
rendered other instruments
obsolete. And plus, less youth are now practicing
other instruments, and less bands are using them.
So, is the computer the new wave?

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