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▲ ryukoposting a day ago

> where do you draw the line?

Isn't music better for the fact that every artist can draw their own line?

> Why isn't everyone playing the Linnstrument?

Counterargument: does someone play the Linnstrument? Do they make good music with it?

▲dofm a day ago | parent | next [-]

> Isn't music better for the fact that every artist can draw their own line?

I am not at all making the argument that it isn't.

Rather I am trying to get at the idea that the "revolutionises the guitar" coverage framing that accompanies developments like this usually elides questions about musicality.

> Counterargument: does someone play the Linnstrument? Do they make good music with it?

I have never actually heard such a player myself.

▲aidenn0 14 hours ago | parent [-]

I think everybody agrees that news articles tend towards hyperbole, often to the point of being silly to anyone who knows topic well. See also: e.g. news coverage of every scientific paper ever.

The inventor's site is much more reasonable (while still, IMO, marketing the product effectively): "A New Way to Play Guitar."

▲breezybottom a day ago | parent | prev [-]

No, I can't see how. I'm very glad that Yuja Wang stuck to piano instead of creating some ridiculous new device. Techniques would never develop over time if every musician had to start completely from scratch on a brand new instrument.

▲dofm a day ago | parent | next [-]

Instruments as the embodiments of conventions.

▲xgulfie 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But if The Presidents Of The United States of America didn't make their guitbass and the bassitar then we probably wouldn't have gotten Peaches or Lump