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#481383 - 11/21/19 02:58 PM
Re: Is an Arranger Keyboard a Musical Instrument?
[Re: saxxman]
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Registered: 12/15/99
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Loc: Ventura, Ca, USA
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According to Wikipedia...”A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument”. In my 5th semester of Music Theory, one day our professor told us to begin making music with whatever tools we had. The class was slow to respond. A couple people started tapping pencils on their desks. One guy grabbed the trash can and started bongo'ing on it... someone got on the board and reluctantly started scraping chalk... Several folks were just taking it all in with wonderment. Then the professor went to the blackboard and wrote "Everyone must participate!" Then, some people started raising their desks 2" off the floor and dropping them back down...one guy started opening and closing the venetian blinds. Several people started clicking their fingers while others clapped. Me and another guy had a rehearsal to go to so we departed the room - and on the way out we added to the music by slamming the door so hard that it blew ceiling tiles loose and jammed the door. That was the last time we did that exercise. But it was musical!  I sat in a crowded coffee shop in the mid 80's when someone started a rhythm pattern with his coffee spoon on the table. it took only about a minute and the whole coffee shop started in doing rhythms in different ways. That lasted for about 2-3 minutes. Than it abruptly stopped, everybody started laughing and went back to their busyness. Great experience ... Eric
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#481395 - 11/21/19 03:54 PM
Re: Is an Arranger Keyboard a Musical Instrument?
[Re: Eric, B]
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Registered: 10/15/05
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Loc: Niceville, FL USA
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I sat in a crowded coffee shop in the mid 80's when someone started a rhythm pattern with his coffee spoon on the table.
it took only about a minute and the whole coffee shop started in doing rhythms in different ways.
That lasted for about 2-3 minutes.
Than it abruptly stopped, everybody started laughing and went back to their busyness.
Great experience ...
Eric
Eric - yep, it's amazing how people can join in! Once on a long bus trip with the USAF Band, someone started opening and closing the ash trays on the seatbacks in our fancy cruising machine... there were about 40 of us on the bus. It was late at night and dark in the bus... then many others started joining in, flipping their ash trays open and closed in different rhythms...it went on with the cacophony growing for about 3 or 4 minutes before our bus screeched to a halt and the poor driver got out of his seat and said "One more click of the #@$*# ash trays and I will no longer be your driver". HA HA. Can't blame him but it was fun too! We all got quiet for the rest of the trip! 
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PA4X, SX900 (Baby Genos), Roland U-20, L1 Compact, Way 2 Many Saxes
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#481435 - 11/22/19 07:01 AM
Re: Is an Arranger Keyboard a Musical Instrument?
[Re: Stephenm52]
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Registered: 10/15/05
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Loc: Niceville, FL USA
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Nice story...
But was it musical? Or Rythmical?
Randy, Love that story about the ash trays and the bus. Lucky for your group that the driver didn’t ask you all to get off the bus and walk the rest of the way.  Bachus - good point! Neglected to mention it above, but as I recall, the vocal majors in the class started humming and scatting a little too, which added to the "music". It was an interesting day in theory class. Steve - in the good old military band days, we had a single driver who drove for us everywhere we went. We all loved the guy and he loved hauling the musicians around and being a 'roadie'. It was a gravy gig for someone assigned to the motor pool on base. Rally can't blame Scotty - probably very hard to drive a huge bus at night with all that clacking going on. By the way, to help w/the boredom, we took a magic marker and wrote numbers by each the lugs on the front right wheel. Then we taped an arrow on the 12:00 position... and took bets on which number would come up at "next stop". Ha ha. The fun days. Probably played 10,000 hands of "Hearts" on that bus.
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