On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:36:39 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Signal saying
something like:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:

You are an old fart as I have said.
Just because it doesn't look like a piano is enough to make you claim it
isn't a piano.
Tell the musicians that play electric violins that they aren't violins.
They don't sound like violins either...
They do sound like electric violins.

They sound bugger all like pianos, I know that much.

well played pizzicato, actually sometimes they do..

I've made electric guitars sound like clarinets in my time..you need a
certain woddy sounding loudspeaker enclosure and a certain amount of
even harmonic distrortion, and a bit of an artist in the thing to
control the attack, which is a bit of a giveaway on a guitar, but the
sustained note is very close to a reed instrument. The sound of the reed
flapping together is duplicated by the asymmetric clipping in the
amplifier...

You can make a sax sound like Hendrix....all you need is an overdrive
pedal, a transducer, a good amp and a pair of earplugs. Only works
from around octave G up.

Regards,



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