What instrument do you prefer?
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Topic: What instrument do you prefer?
Posted By: Guests
Subject: What instrument do you prefer?
Date Posted: December 21 2007 at 17:26
| Just wanted to see what instrument do progers like the most. |
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: December 21 2007 at 17:28
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Bassoon, of course.
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: December 21 2007 at 17:42
The bassoon?! Cowbell or triangle for me. |
rileydog22 wrote:Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 06:52
| Keyboards especially the harpsichord. Haven't made up my mind about the piano though. it's OK as a percussion instrument but not as the featured instrument |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 07:05
Oboe - the eeriest sound ever. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Gamemako
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 15:48
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Trumpet? Violin? Cello? Something is missing from this poll.
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 15:49
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the harp or else tuned percussion. or the female voice. everyone's answers have been pretty prog so far. but out of the traditional rock instruments, the humble bass guitar. ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 15:59
Cello, then violin. I think you should at least add "strings", "woodwind" and "brass" to your poll. 
------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 16:01
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I'm a guitar guy all the way around. ------------- 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 16:20
You can do them all with keyboards ahhahaha. No, just kidding. Sorry that I didn't include them. I'm a jerk.  |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 16:28
Guitar, the "feeble instrument" that Fripp, McLaughlin, Holdsworth, Howe, Gilmour, Zappa, and Stolt play. 
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Posted By: santiagomo87
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 16:40
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It's the violin but it's not on the list and since i've been listening to a lot of flutes this week i voted for flutes. I'm afraid some other day i'll read this and regret i didn't vote for guitar. ------------- Santiago |
Posted By: YesFan72
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 19:22
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 22:00
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Posted By: Lonely Progger
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 07:01
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Keyboards! "L'Instrument Maitre " as we say in French.
Honestly when you just think about the musical possibilities, The only instruments that can produce harmony and melody are The Guitar and Keyboards.
And on a Keyboard you've 2 hands on guitare you're limited with one, a guitar has only 4 to 5 scales a keyboard has on average 7.
And a guitar doesn't have all the subtleties of the keyboard crescendo poco poco, tempo primo, Con anima ,Forte and all the other italian words. ------------- Lost in the south of france: " Le rock progressif ? C'est quoi cette connerie? " |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: December 27 2007 at 21:27
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Cello of course and viola
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: December 27 2007 at 21:46
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Ondes Martenot
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: December 27 2007 at 21:51
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 27 2007 at 21:54
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I love drums and play guitar... but I'll take the organ pretty much any day |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: January 24 2008 at 22:44
Electric guitar Of course, having been playing one for the past 3 years for at least 2 hours a day, I can't be biased ------------- 
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Posted By: Philip
Date Posted: January 26 2008 at 11:32
| Keyboards. Yesterday, I had one of the pleasures, in terms of music in my whole life. I played in a big pipe organ in a church, so today, I can't have any doubt, it's keyboards. |
Posted By: weetabix
Date Posted: February 02 2008 at 19:45
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A big ass Hammond B-3 on the attack.
Quatermass, ELP, and Nick Crane along with David Greenslade my favourites.
But all bow to HRH Rick Wakeman.
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Posted By: asimplemistake
Date Posted: February 02 2008 at 21:32
| I gotta go with a guitar, theres nothing like the pure beauty of an acoustic guitar played correctly |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: February 02 2008 at 21:55
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^Love the guitar, but after playing 14 notes per second on the electric and trying to setlle down and try some finger style on an acoustic I have always felt really limited, but of course I'll leave that to the dedicated acoustic-heads to churn out something really amazing. -------------
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: February 02 2008 at 22:39
Jaco? I don't think Jaco was an instrument. ------------- |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: February 03 2008 at 02:12
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A fuzzed up hammond organ realy turns me on baby! yeah! ------------- 
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: February 03 2008 at 02:18
 But Jaco was very much at one with his bass, so perhaps he sorta was an instrument. Or maybe it was a case that the bass was Jaco  -------------
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Posted By: Captain Brandon
Date Posted: February 17 2008 at 17:58
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Keyboards a lot more important in prog than almost any other genre. So I'd guess a lot of keyboard players are drawn to prog.
its they main reason I listen to it. ------------- POOP |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: February 17 2008 at 18:04
Jaco is not the only thing in this picture.  |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 17 2008 at 18:05
| I would go for the bass or sax or keyboards. I'll go for bass. The bass is an instrument that few people apreciate. All most all prog heads apreciate of course. But I think the guitar is like pop now. The drums are cool but nah. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: February 17 2008 at 18:14
Guitar is like pop?
I tend to even think the even the guitar is widely unappreciated among the general public. It's scary the amount of people that honestly believe that the guitar cannot be used more expressively than in a pop-punk band setting  .-------------
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Posted By: Scapler
Date Posted: February 17 2008 at 18:16
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I don't know, I play Bass and Keyboards, which do I choose?????? ------------- Bassists are deadly 
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: February 17 2008 at 18:29
Guitar
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Posted By: Scapler
Date Posted: February 17 2008 at 18:59
Bass kills guitar. Especially this bass 
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: February 17 2008 at 19:05
Holy crap, it looks like one of those Steinberger bass guitars (but I suspect it actually isn't). Let me guess, one of the 3 control knobs controls (gun) volume, one controls the active gunpowder boost and the 3rd one controls the tone i.e how much the shrill high end of the gun shot will obliterate your hearing?  -------------
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Posted By: Scapler
Date Posted: February 17 2008 at 19:21
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So, this picture has convinced me, bass. ------------- Bassists are deadly
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 06:25
Hopefully someone has designed a 'killer' guitar to compete with that -------------
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 07:34
Exactly how sad do you need to be to play this bass guitar...? In a word, pathetic 
Now this is a proper, sensible guitar: 
But at the end of the day, I prefer the one I was using when I was jamming with my mate Carlos the other day: 
OK - I admit it, I borrowed John McLaughlin's guitar when he was making a cup of tea... ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 07:57
Bass and Hammond organ - though I can't play any instrument at all, unfortunately ...
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Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 08:02
| Organ, harpiscord and cello. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 08:46
The guitar is far more expressive than keyboards ... which of course doesn't mean that musicians can't put emotion into a keyboard solo, far from it. The guitar simply offers more ways to uniquely modify the sound ... consider bending strings, the different ways to create vibrato, palm muting, harmonics, dive bombs/string effects, sliding, tapping (we guitarists *do* have two hands), sustainer, fretless guitars (Vigier), E-Bow ... and even the most basic thing on the guitar (plucking a string) can be done in a million ways (fingers, pick, pick angle, direction, alternate picking, legato, sweeping etc.), whereas on a keyboard it's always more or less the same mechanism picked up by digital sensors. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aotm-2025-1/vote" rel="nofollow - 2025 Monthly Release Poll Listened to: 
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Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 10:01
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: February 22 2008 at 13:19
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Keyboards However, all are quite necessary for a decent sounding band (if you count flute as just "woodwind"): they sound best working together as one IMO. ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: February 22 2008 at 19:51
What the heck is that? -------------
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Posted By: burritounit
Date Posted: February 24 2008 at 18:27
^^^never seen that instrument before I play the guitar put I prefer playing the drums. The whole idea of hitting somethings makes me feel a lot happier  ------------- "I've walked on water, run through fire, can't seem to feel it anymore. It was me, waiting for me..." |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: February 24 2008 at 20:13
^ what?! you've never seen a bass before
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Posted By: burritounit
Date Posted: February 24 2008 at 22:19
well...not that kind of bass, but thanks for the info. ------------- "I've walked on water, run through fire, can't seem to feel it anymore. It was me, waiting for me..." |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: February 24 2008 at 23:53
| Probably because I came into this world as a headbanger (even if I'm now a born-again-progger) the guitar is almost essential to me. Getting into something like Supertramp and VdGG was a HUGE challenge because of this... although rewarding! |