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									Which is the most versatile instrument ? - Opinions and Polls				            </title>
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                        <title>Re: Re:</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/which-is-the-most-versatile-instrument/paged/5/#post-273508</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[but with the piano you don&#039;t need to memorize string names and the lack of sharps to certain notes still throws me off  :wink:
Any western instrument has the same flats and sharps. Based on ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[but with the piano you don't need to memorize string names and the lack of sharps to certain notes still throws me off  :wink:
Any western instrument has the same flats and sharps. Based on how they are tuned they might be somewhere you didn't expect. :wink:

A diatonic harmonica in the key of C has no flats or sharps (unless you bend notes, which I guess counts as somewhere you didn't expect!)l

And a whole slew of almost sharps and flats, depending on your bending skill :lol:]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>causnorign</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Which is the most versatile instrument ?</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/which-is-the-most-versatile-instrument/paged/5/#post-273483</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[On the keyboard, try moving your fingers up so you play on and between the black keys and you can move your patterns around exactly the same way you do on a fretboard. Ignore that some of th...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[On the keyboard, try moving your fingers up so you play on and between the black keys and you can move your patterns around exactly the same way you do on a fretboard. Ignore that some of the keys are raised and some aren't, except that it's easy to "slide" or "bend" into a note by hitting a black key and slipping right off it to hit the adjacent white key.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>Ricochet</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Re:</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Once you figure out a guitar I suppose it makes sense, but with the piano you don&#039;t need to memorize string names and the lack of sharps to certain notes still throws me off  :wink:
Ok, it i...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Once you figure out a guitar I suppose it makes sense, but with the piano you don't need to memorize string names and the lack of sharps to certain notes still throws me off  :wink:
Ok, it is possible. Probably, you are "seeing" all the notes when you are in front of the keyboard and it is easier identify where a C is. However, the next "step" in a guitar is always the next semitone, in the piano, there are white and black keys and it is not easy transpose a song. I know how to put several chords on the piano but I have to think how to put a chord a semitone up.<br><br>I guess each instrument has its own advantages and disadvantages. It is possible that the "standard" tuning was not logical, some string are separated by a fourth, another by a third... It is easier to form some chords in that way. As Ricochet said, the open tunings are more logical.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>Nuno</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Re:</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[but with the piano you don&#039;t need to memorize string names and the lack of sharps to certain notes still throws me off  :wink:
Any western instrument has the same flats and sharps. Based on ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[but with the piano you don't need to memorize string names and the lack of sharps to certain notes still throws me off  :wink:
Any western instrument has the same flats and sharps. Based on how they are tuned they might be somewhere you didn't expect. :wink:

A diatonic harmonica in the key of C has no flats or sharps (unless you bend notes, which I guess counts as somewhere you didn't expect!)l]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>Saryu</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Re:</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[but with the piano you don&#039;t need to memorize string names and the lack of sharps to certain notes still throws me off  :wink:
Any western instrument has the same flats and sharps. Based on ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[but with the piano you don't need to memorize string names and the lack of sharps to certain notes still throws me off  :wink:
Any western instrument has the same flats and sharps. Based on how they are tuned they might be somewhere you didn't expect. :wink:]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>boxboy</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Re:</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[It&#039;s laid out much more logically.
What do you mean with &quot;logically&quot;?  :wink:

Once you figure out a guitar I suppose it makes sense, but with the piano you don&#039;t need to memorize string nam...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[It's laid out much more logically.
What do you mean with "logically"?  :wink:

Once you figure out a guitar I suppose it makes sense, but with the piano you don't need to memorize string names and the lack of sharps to certain notes still throws me off  :wink:]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>SGinCYQX</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Which is the most versatile instrument ?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[While its not on the list, and most people don&#039;t consider it an instrument my vote goes for the human voice.  Its appropriate for all kinds of music (except instrumentals) but it does have a...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[While its not on the list, and most people don't consider it an instrument my vote goes for the human voice.  Its appropriate for all kinds of music (except instrumentals) but it does have acapella all to itself.  The tonal range is excellent, you can take it with you everywhere.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>causnorign</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Re:</title>
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                        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[It&#039;s laid out much more logically.
What do you mean with &quot;logically&quot;?  :wink:]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[It's laid out much more logically.
What do you mean with "logically"?  :wink:]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>Nuno</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Which is the most versatile instrument ?</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/which-is-the-most-versatile-instrument/paged/4/#post-273336</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[That sounds just like the people who used to say that anybody who wouldn&#039;t/couldn&#039;t learn the DOS command line interface should stay away from a computer. Anyway, there are a lot more ways t...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[That sounds just like the people who used to say that anybody who wouldn't/couldn't learn the DOS command line interface should stay away from a computer. Anyway, there are a lot more ways to lay out a guitar fretboard than standard tuning.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>Ricochet</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Which is the most versatile instrument ?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Yep. And a lot of them give up before they ever get anything musical out of the guitar as a result.

The people who aren&#039;t willing to work to learn the layout of a guitar fretboard should go...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Yep. And a lot of them give up before they ever get anything musical out of the guitar as a result.

The people who aren't willing to work to learn the layout of a guitar fretboard should go back to Guitar Hero IMO.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>SGinCYQX</dc:creator>
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