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Re: alternative instrument for a horn player

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Subject: Re: alternative instrument for a horn player
From: Peter Younghusband <monkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:38:05 +0800
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Dashman wrote:

> Adrian wrote:
> > After all, under contesting rules, bands are allowed to augment
> > with percussion instruments, and any instrument that is struck
> > or plucked comes under the heading of percussion. This includes
> > guitar, pianoforte, harpsichord, harp, celeste and even
> > pizzicato or col legno strings.
>
> Adrian,
> I thought that 'percussion' refers to instruments that are struck, and *not*
> to those that are plucked.  This makes a piano a percussion instrument,
> along with the glock, xylophone and celeste.  But not the harpsichord and
> harp, which are in the string section.

IMHO - correct. Anything 'plucked' is a string instrument I thought too.

Monkey


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