fiona,
when i said "drums are the easiest to play", i did not say "play
well". "any fool can hit a drum", does that not imply 'get a sound out
of...'? at any rate, that's what i meant. the ultimate point being (in
case you missed it), that the relative ease or, difficulty in getting a sound
out of an instrument, does not have much, if anything, to do with that
instrument's value. "the bagpipe is harder to get a sound out of than it is
to get a sound out of a piano therefore, the bagpipe is a better instrument"
is not a statement any of us would agree with (the value of an instrument
being in what you do with the sound you make).
applying the same logic to singing, it is my belief that it is far
easier to sing a tenor high C as a counter-tenor than it is to sing it as a
'regular' tenor. that doesn't make the 'regular' tenor better than the
counter-tenor (especially if, the 'regular' tenor sings like a pig and the
counter-tenor does not).
mike
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