Saturday, April 19, 2008

The Colorful Tones

I started to learn music when I was very young. It was an assignment. It is also a culture that one gets to grow with, to enjoy or to pick on. The wonderful thing about music is that no matter what your personality or temperament is, there is a type of music for you.

I started with violin. You? Pop? Jazz? Classical?

Violin has a huge variey of sound and tone qualities. Modern musical instruments, the electronic variety, also can generate a lot. However, if you investigate closer, you would notice that more than half of those synthesized tones actually originated from real-life (existing) sources, like drums, hand-claps, various musical instruments like piano, jazz piano, grand piano, guitar, etc. with a small minority of purely electronically originated tones. These are the really fascinating ones. Yes, they add to the overall colors of music.

But I still like the old school. Violin, orchestra music.

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