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Thread #163795 Message #3911308
Posted By: TheSnail
15-Mar-18 - 07:52 PM
Thread Name: Is a singer a musician?
Subject: RE: Is a singer a musician?
I've heard it said that anyone who plays an instrument, e.g a fiddle or a guitar or a flute, should call themselves an instrumentalist not a musician.
A friend of mine, a very good fiddler, says disdainfully "An instrumentalist plays an instrument, a musician plays music".
A couple of people have said on this thread that the voice is a musical instrument. Does that make a singer an instrumentalist?