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Practice 9 WHAT IS ART AND WHO SAYS SO?
Academic and educational environment
SOCIAL LANGUAGE PRACTICE: Write agreements and disagreements to
participate in a debate about fine arts.

do you Think CompuTers are phasinG
ouT musiCaL insTrumenTs?

19 Answers Answer Follow . 23 Request �

Harrison Boyle phase out
steinway
Composer strad
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Answered Jan 13, 2014 Glossary on
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Computers can replace a good number of
electronic instruments - anything where the sound you hear
is actually a cardboard cone vibrating. (When Rob Menes
says below that we can get very close to the sound of a Strad
or Steinway, I would amend that to say very close to the
sound of a recording thereof…)

On the one hand, you could say that we are in a phase where
even the vocals in 'pop' music are so horribly computer-
manipulated and altered that the voice has all the humanity
of a dial tone. (There's an archaic reference for you!) On
the other hand, even film producers still recognize that the
sound of live instruments and/or an orchestra is worth the
investment - it remains the preferred choice for a quality film
because the difference can be felt.

In the previous century, musical instruments had already
lost ground to the player-piano, the gramophone, and the
radio. As a technology that combines the functions of those
previous inventions, the computer may continue that already
extant process, but it is not the cause. In any case, what is
being phased out there is the ability of more people to play
the instruments, not the instruments themselves.
It is worth noting that from the very beginning, every iteration
of electronic or mechanical sound production has been

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