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Are DJs Musicians?
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The piano is a string instrument, the pianoforte is a percussion instrument. As always, ham fisted drummers who think "dynamics" is the name of a metal band play the pianoFORTAY at full volume.
If this is regards to bass weight it may refer to the weight of the pigments in the paint. There may well be dark opaque colors that are denser and weigh more than their more brilliant counterparts. Red paint costs more than other colors (black and white being cheapest) due to the expensive pigments used. I found this out from the body tech at a company I used to work for. I was pondering having my van painted and was pricing it when this startling bit of information came up. If we're going to get metaphysical (not like Olivia Newton John) and discuss how darkness isn't really an entity in and of itself but is the absence of light. No one flipped a switch to turn on the darkness. Just as disease is what it sounds like: dis = lack of, ease = wellness. Not a thing at all but an absence of a real thing. Then there's the obvious light/dark versus good/evil thing. What's the best pointy bass with skulls and sharp metal bits for bubblegum pop? Does a pink and white Hello Kitty bass sound as good through a distortion pedal than a gothic black T-bird? We may never know. To really bring this whole conversation up a notch, does playing metal in a dark room at night sound more foreboding than it does at an outdoor gig on beautiful sunny day? Hmmmm...
You're thinking too hard about this.
Look into a deep well in the ground. It gets darker as you look further down it because dark is heavier than light.
I have two eyes. I see in stereo. I therefore need twice the number of holes to look down. Well, well.You're thinking too hard about this.
Look into a deep well in the ground. It gets darker as you look further down it because dark is heavier than light.
The question asked, wether the piano was a string instrument or a percussion instrument. No?
Who said anything about percussive? ;-)
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That was a mistake, I tried to edit it, but I was too late. Traditionally, the Piano has been regarded as a
Percussion instrument.
I was a voice major at one of our finest conservatories, and a professional singer for many years. From my earliest years in the opera/concert world, the nomenclature was "singers and musicians". (One nameless fraternal organization did not even accept applications from "singers"). These silos continued into the professional world, perhaps because singers and musicians (for some illogical reason) have different labor union affiliations. Good DJs are musical, creative, and artistic, but I would not consider them musicians in the traditional sense - but are they not indeed music-makers? Welcome DJs to the world of those being dissed by musicians.
Yes, after being struck with a felt hammer. Definitions aren't always black and white, so the accepted traditional definition is easiest.
Bass is classified as a string instrument, but could arguably, in the case of slap bass, could be reclassified as a Percussion instrument. Some things are just best left alone.
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DJs are musicians, and it is racist to say they are not. It goes back to the vile "rap/hip-hop isn't music" trope that I can't believe we're still having the conversation in the year 2020.
Here is the DJ from A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, demonstrating that yes, in fact, he is a "musician."
Here is the DJ from A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, demonstrating that yes, in fact, he is a "musician."
My opinions:
Jimi Hendrix - Rock Guitar GOAT
Little Walter - Blues Harmonica GOAT
James Jamerson - Bassist GOAT
B.B. King - King of the Blues
RAP and Hip Hop - Not musicians unless they can actually play an instrument.
If it is only because I do not think your Rap and Hip Hop are musicians, please explain how that makes me a racist?
This can only be racist, if you class musicians and DJs as two different races. So your claim answers the question.
In my opinion they both belong to the race "performer" with "musician" and "DJ" as subclasses.
By using a musical instrument, and not by using his turntable?
That's a really strange way to proof that DJ's are musicians 
