• dumpsterlid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    But don’t act like its somehow superior to other kinds of music.

    I wasn’t, you are putting words in my mouth, I am absolutely aware that good musicians change the timbre of the instrument they are playing to express themselves but those things are usually considered the details, the flourishes, or embellishments of performance, not the core focus of the performance. All you need to do is take a cursory glance at sheet music to understand how most western genres of music perceive the experience and performance of music.

    The first people to master this type of music composition and performance were likely didgeridoo players, or maybe it was players of some instrument in Chinese culture that I am unaware of since Chinese history goes back so far… so yah it ain’t new.

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      9 months ago

      I mean no, the first people to master timbre were singers, followed by drummers, tens hundreds of thousands of years ago. Let’s not lose our heads here.

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        9 months ago

        Ok sure that is reasonable, I was just trying to provide examples of non-percussive non-voice musical instruments.

        Also I lost my head a long long time ago, have you seen it lying around anywhere?