Could i technically post a thread about guitars here?

[vintagetobes]

what with guitars being percussion.
Sorry im being pathetic, bordom on a thursday evening.
keep rockin

 

[BentRabbit]

You could....

But you have to send $20 'permission money' to all of our PayPal accounts first...

 

[MadAudio]

what with guitars being percussion

Really? Since when?

 

[BentRabbit]

Really? Since when?

per·cus·sion (per-kush-un)
The striking together of two bodies, especially when noise is produced.

Example Picture

There ya go...

 

[MadAudio]

Hehe, I'm still just banging rocks together. Maybe I need to evolve.

 

[thane1200]

I don't know if geetars are percussion, they are not "hammered" like piano strings are.

 

[boingoman]

per·cus·sion (per-kush-un)
The striking together of two bodies, especially when noise is produced.

Example Picture

There ya go...

ROFLMAO!!

 

[vintagetobes]

sorry for this pointless thread but, guitars are percussion yeh.

 

[MadAudio]

No, they're not. They are chordophones. You can play one percussively, but it is not a percussion instrument.

Pianos are.

 

[vintagetobes]

cheers for clearing that up, il correct my music teachers.

keep rockin

 

[boingoman]

cheers for clearing that up, il correct my music teachers.

keep rockin

http://www.answers.com/topic/musical-instrument-classification


Sachs-Hornbostel is pretty much the standard these days.

 

[MadAudio]

cheers for clearing that up, il correct my music teachers.

keep rockin

Please do. You can tell them my source is an ethnomusicologist who is also the Assistant Director of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

And you keep rockin', too!

 

[vintagetobes]

an ethnomusicoligist hey? so am i, in that i study ethnomusicoligy, in fact, my teachers...teach it. And like the assistant director of smithsonian folkways recording, both my tutors have PHDs in music.

im not trying to get into an arguement about it :-(

I think basically as there is no set list of catagories that are neccesarily in the same field, therfore, instruments fit into many groups. e.g. piano: strings, percussion, chordophone etc...

 

[dgatwood]

I don't know if geetars are percussion, they are not "hammered" like piano strings are.

Yeah. It's a bit like a cross between a piano and a harpsichord in a way. With guitars, it's usually the players that are hammered and the strings are plucked.

But seriously, is a harpsichord percussion? If a piano is.... In which case a guitar.... My head hurts.