mr dave

yes and no.

i don't really want to crap on stone birds for his list but i definitely agree with you for the most part.

i'm kind of torn at listing different techniques as a new instrument. i own both a violin bow and an ebow, but i don't say i play bowed guitar, it's just a technique i use randomly and ends up under the greater umbrella of being a guitarist without limits.

on the other hand if bowing was my predominant method of choice by a large margin then i'd list it - like Ben Harper and his slide.

also, listing every variation on an instrumental possibility makes it look like you're compensating for something. like when June of '44 listed 'bathtub, stair railing, cupboards, kitchen table, sink, pipes' and other furniture as instruments on one of their albums because they used field recordings of themselves beating on random crap in an old house to use in one of their tracks. it wasn't a horrible track either, but it left a bad taste in my mouth, as all it served was their ego and its attempts at making them seem more special than all the other 'generic' musicians who stuck to just using actual traditional instruments.

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