>dad was a professional, touring musician for a few years, with a band >I've never played an instrument and know very little about music theory, despite liking music >talk to dad, somehow conversation gets round to xylophones
>I mention that the xylophone is a percussive instrument
>dad: "no" >me: "yuh-huh, look it up. You strike the plates with mallets. You hit the thing, so it's a percussive instrument. Specifically, the xylophone is part of the percussive section in an orchestra."
>dad starts getting upset, going in both directions at once: first, he insists that this is so vague that all musical instruments in general involve some sort of "striking" of the sound-maker. Second, he actually tries to argue that the xylophone is not a percussive instrument exactly because it produces several well-defined pitches
>I know that dad knows enough about music to know that drums produce definite timbres and pitches, just in a more muted and less explicit way, but he's flustered right now
>okay dad, look it up. >he looks it up >I stick it home to him: "see, you were wrong, weren't you?" >dad sorta grumbles and doesn't want to talk about it anymore >all of my smug
Camden Brooks
>dad leaves and starts a new family
Landon Lopez
wait till you tell him about the piano
Eli Reed
Wait if the piano strings are being struck when you press the key does that make it a percussive instrument?
Carter Thompson
I did BTFO out of him pretty hard, but he's a good man.
The sweeter thing was when he was boxed into a corner and absolutely had no other choice whatsoever, and he voted for Trump, though he had desparately wished back in March 2016 that Trump would be defeated in the primary process, and I informed him that Trump would not only win the primary process, but that he would also be elected president- he's already buried like a dozen guys by this point, what's a few more.
Landon Thompson
Wouldn't that mean the piano is a percussive instrument as well?
Grayson Cox
There's actually a specific term beyond percussive, but I can't remember that level of sperge from lectures
Parker Gray
Absolutely. In the words of Billy Joel, "You don't strum a piano, you beat the shit out of it"
