>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"
Jayden Parker
Conglaturations
Blake Reyes
Yes, the piano is a percussive instrument.
Ethan Thomas
Idiophonic? Basically all instruments that aren't stringed or skinned and produce sound solely by being struck.
Hunter Fisher
Your dad hates you
Jack Gutierrez
most people just call it tuned percussion
Dominic Collins
Not it's not.
I'm a professional musician who has toured for years with a band. If you called a piano a percussive instrument you'd be laughed off stage. It produces well-defined pitches.
Isaac Mitchell
judging by your sentence spacing i'm guessing you're the sperg in the skramz thread. i'm sorry to break it to you, but yes it is, you can literally ask anyone who teaches music at a middle school level to a professor, conductors or otherwise, it is 100% a percussion instrument.
Michael Thomas
>playing "while my guitar gently weeps" on keyboard >friend:"you're only playing that because prince died poser" (happened around the time Prince was kill) >inform my friend that George Harrison wrote the song, Prince version is a cover >he shuts up
Brayden Ortiz
Try the first line of the OP.
Andrew Perez
Honestly that's so vague. Is a guitar a percussion instrument too, because you hit the strings?
Kayden Ortiz
t. OP's dad
Jayden Thompson
go to bed dad
Elijah Johnson
hehehe guys
t. OP
Christopher Stewart
what kind of turbo-mong doesn't know that's a beatles song?
Piano is a string instrument, boxed strings specifically at least according to my music history class
Ethan Sanders
i don't know what your teacher was smoking, but both of those classifications bleed into a ton of other styles of instruments that could also be up for debate. I assure you, really, piano is percussion.
Alexander Nelson
NO you strum them Unless you're a badass and/or playing the Seinfeld intro
Joseph Brooks
literally the same kind of guy who thought The Man Who Sold was a Nirvana song
Elijah Bailey
percussion 1. musical instruments played by striking with the hand or with a stick or beater, or by shaking, including drums, cymbals, xylophones, gongs, bells, and rattles.
Sound is created in a piano by pressing keys which trigger small hammers that strike the strings inside, therefore it is a percussion instrument.
Mason Young
>You're listening to Leadbelly's performance of In the Pines >I bet you don't even know who Kart Cubone is
Elijah Scott
The Seinfeld intro was a synth
Alexander Ward
>A string instrument is a musical instrument that makes sound by vibrating the strings on it.
Sound is created in a piano by pressing keys which trigger small hammers that strike the strings inside, therefore it is a string instrument.
Joshua Ward
OP is a 16 year old autist that is so proud of himself because he "won an argument" irl. If this isn't cringe then I don't know what is. People have conversations like that all the time and it's nothing special.
Christian Flores
t.a guy who never won an argument
Lucas Brooks
>t. faggot autist who argues just for the sake of an argument. Like I said, it happens all the time in the real world, but you wouldn't know because you never leave your basement.
Christopher Hernandez
Stay mad, brainlet.
John Reyes
Stay juvenile, child. You wouldn't win an argument with a 10 yo.
Noah Lee
>"Keyboard instruments do not fit easily into this scheme. For example, the piano has strings, but they are struck by hammers, so it is not clear whether it should be classified as a string instrument or a percussion instrument."
Conlratilio, you're both half-right and half-wrong
Ayden Phillips
Not as much of an argument, but similar story >Discussion over clever songwriting using little lyrics with significant meaning >Bring up how Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" is a perfect example of this >Dad who used to be in fairly big AC/DC cover band insists the song was written by Jimi Hendrix >Mfw that's where you're wrong kiddo
Thomas Sanders
>child You're the one sperging out over a Sup Forums post that must've hit you too close to home, buddy. :)
Jordan Sanchez
>i don't know what your teacher was smoking
Not him but those are classically taught classifications, albeit interpretations that could indeed be up for debate.
For the sake of high level music education it sets a standard, so he's not wrong.
Jack Brooks
yeah my professor is pretty qualified IMO >PhD, Wikipedia article, decades of experience, hundreds of compositions, has interviewed Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and others still, it's a really basic entry-level class so he probably dumbs it down a lot
Xavier Price
i think we might be saying the same thing, but i may have not been clear. i'm purely talking about piano, which in the academic level is almost unanimously declared a percussion instrument, and only that instrument i am talking about.