Re: "Instrument" vs "Effect"

[a k butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

>  I hate to say it, but we are all just deducing conclutions on what 
> is and is not an instrument based on our own custom definitions of 
> the term "instrument"...which I find extremely pleasing.

Not my intention to do that at all,
I'm trying illustrate a certain approach to music making.
If "instrument" gets re-defined then that's just a useless by-product :-)

>   It confirms my observation and experiences of years of debating 
> that most disagreements and differences of opinion are semantic and 
> not related to any substantial facts.

...but I suspect what we have here is people with a genuinely 
different approach to music.

>Next topic!  :-)

Hopes... new possibilities for musical structure opened up by the use 
of looping devices.
Fears....string gauges

andy