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Laurence Payne wrote:
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 04:11:04 GMT, (hank alrich)
wrote:

To me, the e-drums have become different
instruments rather than inferior instruments.

Miles Davis is alleged to have replied to an interviewer who asked him,
"When does a synthesizer become a real instrument?" with, "As soon as a
composer writes a part for it".

And I wonder what he meant? Was he seeing synths just as cheap
imitators of real instruments? Or recognising that composers DO write
parts for them now?

I think he was showing a wonderfully open mind to music
something the snobs just don't grasp well
George