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RedFoo

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Hi can you please help me find nickelback savin me song to play chords and acoustic version cause i cant find it and is it true that drums ar the loudest instruments?
 

John Watt

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Only one instrument on earth is capable of sending a sound around the oceans,
the frequential voice of the humpback whales.
If you ever get some Inuit whale scrotum drums, you'll hear the tone difference.
an'do'ya really need your nickleback?
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Off the top of my head I would think an Organ would be the loudest or did you mean acoustic ?
 

John Watt

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Do you consider Marshall amplifiers as musical instruments?
I say Marshall, because they are the first stack makers to be as loud as a jet engine.
Deep Purple set a Guinness Record for being the loudest band on earth, using them.

Acoustically, anything bass travels further, if that's a measure to use.
I can see you're used to a lot of head room, JHC, thinking an organ is the loudest.
Cathedral interiors make the most use of that.

I'm not plugged in right now,
just doin'some eeffen an'a effen,
breaking that up with some slap'a'dappa taps.
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
How can an amplifier be a musical instrument? I don’t doubt they can be wound up to suicidal levels ask my B/**&y neighbour. You are spot on about bass sound I used to play double bass and was constantly told to play softer this was in clubs and hotels etc another thing I found out was that the Double Bass is a “late speaker” you need to be right on the front or even a fraction before the beat otherwise you get accused of dragging.
 

John Watt

Member
okay, okay, that's enough of that, you being up at bat.
I've never had enough bass to drag around like that.

But you have to admit, human powered cathedral organs, sometimes 14 people,
does cross the line from being purely acoustic.
You can say the addition of large, flaring ends for brass instruments,
that were very difficult to make by hand, could be seen as amplifiers.
That made even carrying a tuba difficult, just for the deep bass.
You have your own duality happening, the lag of what you say is bass drag.
Is there a stage costume for that?
I know where a dealer has a lot of in the box Zsa-Zsa Gabor wigs.

Being consumed by dualities, I see another similarity.
You know how countries and religions use music to be convincing for populations.
That could be considered using music as a weapon of subjugation, if it is.
Look at what Americans are doing,
blasting heavy metal through amplifiers at President Daniel Nortega,
when they wanted more control around the Suez Canal.
What about "sound cannons", now being ordered by the Toronto Police in Ontario, Canada,
from the good ole U.S.A.?

You know, it really is a good thing that the birds don't fly south any more,
here in the Niagara Peninsula.
I need to hear their song more than ever before.
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
But you have to admit, human powered cathedral organs, sometimes 14 people,
does cross the line from being purely acoustic.


That could be considered using music as a weapon of subjugation, if it is.

Indeed John If I remember correctly, The Karelia music and suite by Jean Sibelius was used as a rallying cry for the Finish people in opposition to the Land grabbing Russians it is a very popular piece of music today.
You are right about the organ it would sound very weak without technology, I actually sang in a church choir when I was about 12-13 and that had a hand operated bellows on the Organ.
 

John Watt

Member
JHC! You're saying the music of Jean Sibelius was used as a rallying cry,
for Finnish people who weren't finished off.
I'm wondering if the word sibilant, that I think of as the attention getting ring of cymbals,
and those tiny little ankle bells that woman who visits you wears,
is derived from his name. I only get the jangle of jingles around here.
Life would be better, if I qualified for home visit, assisted baths.
 
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