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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The Story of the Electric Guitar - Part 2
Description: For centuries, music was nice and cleanā¦while different instruments gave notes different timbres, the frequencies of those notes was expected to be clear and pureā¦yes, you could add a little umph by playing fortissimo, but the dogma was āletās not overdo itāā¦
But sometimes the situation called for overdoing thingsā¦banging a piano turns a melody and a beat into some stompinā boogie-woogieā¦a raspy, hard-blown saxophone brings energy to a performanceā¦
But creating pleasant distortion with either of theseĀ instrumentsāand we can name a few othersāis limited to the abilities of the human bo...