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Originally Posted by Locobot
Well you're still not providing any substancial difference between a turntable and a "traditional instrument" so...your catagorization would be false.
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i thought i was pretty clear, but apparently i've touched a nerve and don't care to look objectively at the situation.
my proposition: a musical instrument has three user-controlled properties - pitch, rhythm, and timbre.
my conclusion: assuming the proposition is true, traditional instruments can all be classified as "musical instruments". some sampling/mixing/scratching can also be considered "musical", but sampling/mixing/scratching present in a fair portion of pop music doesn't have all the above properties. would you consider the random scratching in a limp bizkit song representative of a musical instrument?