Is a Computer an Instrument?

Freebase Dali · 09-23-2010, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by HVYMTLROCK

Anything can be used to produce music... That does not mean it is an instrument. Look at blue man group. Just because they use trash cans and sticks does not mean that the trash can is now an aluminum drum.... It is still a trash can...

We're not asking whether a computer is a saxaphone...
Why can't people wrap their heads around the concept of what the word "instrument" actually means rather than what they associate with it?

HVYMTLROCK · 09-24-2010, 05:10 AM

in·stru·ment
/ˈɪnstrəmənt/ Show Spelled[in-struh-muhnt] Show IPA
–noun
A contrivance or apparatus for producing musical sounds: a stringed instrument.

Here is the definition posted on the first entry. Read it.... Producing musical sound... A computer does not produce musical sound. It may produce music/noise via speakers but it is programmed to produce these sounds. Everything is coded and programmed on a computer for eventual output of some sort.... It is not an instrument....

**Janszoon** · 09-24-2010, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by HVYMTLROCK

in·stru·ment
/ˈɪnstrəmənt/ Show Spelled[in-struh-muhnt] Show IPA
–noun
A contrivance or apparatus for producing musical sounds: a stringed instrument.

Here is the definition posted on the first entry. Read it.... Producing musical sound... A computer does not produce musical sound. It may produce music/noise via speakers but it is programmed to produce these sounds. Everything is coded and programmed on a computer for eventual output of some sort.... It is not an instrument....

FYI: You have also just made the argument that synthesizers are not instruments.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 09-24-2010, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by HVYMTLROCK

Here is the definition posted on the first entry. Read it.... Producing musical sound... A computer does not produce musical sound. It may produce music/noise via speakers but it is programmed to produce these sounds. Everything is coded and programmed on a computer for eventual output of some sort.... It is not an instrument....

So you're saying a computer isn't an instrument but software is.

Got it.

Stone Birds · 09-24-2010, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by HVYMTLROCK

in·stru·ment
/ˈɪnstrəmənt/ Show Spelled[in-struh-muhnt] Show IPA
–noun
A contrivance or apparatus for producing musical sounds: a stringed instrument.

Here is the definition posted on the first entry. Read it.... Producing musical sound... A computer does not produce musical sound. It may produce music/noise via speakers but it is programmed to produce these sounds. Everything is coded and programmed on a computer for eventual output of some sort.... It is not an instrument....

a computer does make a musical sound because ALL SOUNDS can be classified as musical sounds. please don't be an idiot.

this is part of the earliest form of computer music

anything with a computer chip that processes ANY amount of data is technically a computer

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