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> >On the subject of a hierarchy of expressive instruments: > > > >I'd rather hear Gary Burton on vibes (considered by some of you to be > >less expressive than guitar/sax/etc.) than another bad imitation of > >Jimmy Page on guitar or that awful sax player who couldn't even play > >in tune with that mediocre lite jazz band I saw several years ago. > > I don't think anyone can argue with statements such as "I'd rather hear >a > really good musician on one instrument than a really bad one on >another". Well, folks here have been discussing the relative merits of instruments in terms of absolutes; which left me a lot of leverage. ^_^ > It might be more interesting to compare musicians at the top of the >skill > spectrum, rather than at opposing ends. Here I must respectfully bow out. I don't see how anything is to be gained discussing, for example, why Pat Metheny is a more expressive soloist than Gary Burton because his instrument is "inherently more expressive". I'd rather not go there myself. Paolo Valladolid --------------------------------------------------------------- |Moderator of Digital Guitar Digest, an Internet mailing list |\ |for Music Technology and Stringed Instruments | \ ---------------------------------------------------------------- | \ finger pvallado@waynesworld.ucsd.edu for more info \ | \ http://waynesworld.ucsd.edu/DigitalGuitar/home.html \| -----------------------------------------------------------------