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tuxon 
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 Posted: September 20 2006 at 17:11 |
Ah the avalancheflute, thought they used dynamite these days, good to see they keep the tradition alive.
btw don't understand the ecoli referene 
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 17:06 |
 How about this, then:
 The crumhorn can play around corners! Get bent!
Ooh! Someone's compensating for something, methinks!
Eeeeeeeeeeee-coli!
Edited by Peter Rideout - September 20 2006 at 17:09
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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tuxon
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 15:53 |
Love the article, makes for a great read, and I totally agreed on all he wrote.
long live pretentious instruments, for they colour my day with sounds
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Barla
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 15:48 |
Funny article !! But where is the Seven String Bass ??
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johnobvious
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 14:05 |
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robertplant, I see your point about tongue in cheek but this isn't a true Onion article but an AV club article, so while it is somewhat tongue in cheek, it isn't a full blown Onion satirical piece. The av club is more straight ahead than the Onion. I'm sure the author believes what he writes and is trying to be humorous about it as opposed to just making stuff up for humor's sake.
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Biggles was in rehab last Saturday
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robertplantowns
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 13:21 |
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WOW, I think what all of you have failed to notice is that this is supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek article, as most of the articles on the Onion are. This writer obviously listens to some prog, how else would he know about the new moog that was made, or Wakeman's silver cape and King Arthur on Ice? He's clearly a prog fan who's trying to write an article to get some laughs, but apparently this has flown over all your heads. Anyways, who can't admit that children's choirs, chapman sticks, those strapped-on keyboards and Ywingie Malmsteen ARE pretentious? THEY ARE! It's ok for prog fans to admit that there are some pretentious aspects to the genre as a whole. If we didn't appreciate such pretentiousness, we wouldn't find so much hilarity in our much beloved Spinal Tap! You guys need to stop taking such things seriously, and learn how to laugh! Anyways that was a funny article and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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salmacis
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 12:57 |
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Oh lord. I thought we'd moved on from the 'pompous/pretentious' school of journalism. Obviously there are still some people who can't get used to music that isn't amateurish or 2 dimensional. I think that all that really needs to be said is that prog has endured, whilst punk seems not to have in some respects. Compare the amount of first division prog bands that are still going or only split up not so long ago to the amount of first division punk acts that are still going and I think that battle's won. Also, the amount of new-ish affiliates of prog- prog metal, neo prog etc.- to the 'stick in the mud', non evolving punk genre. Try as the critics might, they can't kill off prog and deep down, I think they know it. And this accounts for some of the bitter, sour comments, I feel.
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Tony Fisher
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 12:50 |
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Listen to any of Runrig's or Wolfstone's (not prog, Celtic rock and highly recommended) albums and hear why bagpipes are not pretentious: they are Scots Gaels and play their own traditional instrument! In Malcolm Jones' or Stevie Saint's hands, pipes are a thing of beauty.
Personally, I think he's talking out of his a**e but he's entitled to his own boorish view, i guess.
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peroxidess
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 12:05 |
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I can understand what this article is about but punk has already come and gone ...
and I totally agree on Malmsteen... I mean TOTALLY!
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 11:37 |
pretensiousness would be owning these instruments but not being able to play them, surely?
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Meddler
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 11:27 |
 BaldFriede wrote:
I could have thought of a lot much more pretentious instruments. The flute is not pretentious at all, but how about the harp? Or the cello? Or the sitar? Among keyboards I would have chosen a harpsichord as pretentious. The examples chosen don't convince me at all.
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Omar Rodrigues-Lopez plays a sitar. 
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 11:22 |
erlenst wrote:
This article wasn't funny, just plain idiotic.
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Lost your vision thing?
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 11:14 |
BaldFriede wrote:
Sean Trane wrote:
johnobvious wrote:
I guess pretentious is in the eye of the beholder. The more I read it, the more I thought it should of been the Top 10 Pretentious PROG instruments.
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Had read this "thing" in the PE forum.
But Bagpipes have never been prog. Only Stewart and Maca used them (to my knowledge anyway) although it is possible that some modern prog band would've used them in some double disc concept >> I did like Paul's Mull Of Kintyre, though.
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Mother Gong use Uilleann pipes (the Irish variation of the bagpipe) on their album "Fairy Tales".
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Ulleann pipes sound so much better than bagpipes, IMHO (sorry for my Scott friends)
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 11:13 |
I'm not sure, but I bet all of them are used on Pain of Salvation's BE. 
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 11:06 |
Sean Trane wrote:
johnobvious wrote:
I guess pretentious is in the eye of the beholder. The more I read it, the more I thought it should of been the Top 10 Pretentious PROG instruments. |
Had read this "thing" in the PE forum.
But Bagpipes have never been prog. Only Stewart and Maca used them (to my knowledge anyway) although it is possible that some modern prog band would've used them in some double disc concept >> I did like Paul's Mull Of Kintyre, though. |
Mother Gong use Uilleann pipes (the Irish variation of the bagpipe) on their album "Fairy Tales".
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BaldFriede
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 11:03 |
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I could have thought of a lot much more pretentious instruments. The flute is not pretentious at all, but how about the harp? Or the cello? Or the sitar? Among keyboards I would have chosen a harpsichord as pretentious. The examples chosen don't convince me at all.
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BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 11:01 |
johnobvious wrote:
I guess pretentious is in the eye of the beholder. The more I read it, the more I thought it should of been the Top 10 Pretentious PROG instruments. |
Had read this "thing" in the PE forum.
But Bagpipes have never been prog. Only Stewart and Maca used them (to my knowledge anyway) although it is possible that some modern prog band would've used them in some double disc concept >> I did like Paul's Mull Of Kintyre, though.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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johnobvious
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 10:54 |
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I guess pretentious is in the eye of the beholder. The more I read it, the more I thought it should of been the Top 10 Pretentious PROG instruments.
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Biggles was in rehab last Saturday
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 10:54 |
Melomaniac wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote:
I wonder why people feel obliged to sl*g off kinds of music they don't like. As if any of us spent our time writing articles against rap, disco, Britney Spears or such. If I don't care for something (or someone, for the matter), I just ignore it. |
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Or you could say like comedian Bob Newhart once said: I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
Seriously, though, life is way too short. Time spent criticising other people’s tastes is best spent listening to our favourite music.
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Philéas
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 10:51 |
I am apparently one of the few who actually found this article
entertaining. Don't take everything so seriously, it will kill you.
Edited by Philéas - September 20 2006 at 10:52
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10 Most highly pretentious instruments
