Originally Posted by mercury-hg

i think ~1/3 threads in the music forum wind up as arguments about semantics. maybe everyone can agree to something like this:
on turntables, rhythm and timbre (marginally) are the only things going on. pitch is predetermined. i could agree that turntables are a novel percussive instrument, but neither have the full-fledged complexity of a wind, reed, or string instrument. (an array of differently tuned drums excepted from that generalization)