Re: [Nolug] Music meeting?

On 08/01/08 09:04, Mischa D. Krilov wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>> Unless you're joking, how so? IOW, how is a didgeridoo more or less analog
>> than a bongo or clapping hands or piano or flute or pipe organ or calliope?
>
> I meant "more analog" in the larger sense of "less digital" or "more
> organic and less easily mechanically reproduced." Part of the sound of
> a didj is generated from the mouth, tongue, and throat of the player.
> Each instrument is effectively unique, too- so you literally can not
> have the same music from two different players or instruments.

Ah. Since all(?) non-electronic (and even some older electronic)
musical instruments are by-definition analog, the word "organic"
seems to much more accurately describe what you mean.

-- 
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA
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can be a healthy motivator, but each has the ability to turn a
good scientist into a bad one; and in some cases, they can turn
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