Is the voice an instrument?

Subject: RE: Is the voice an instrument?
From: GUEST,allie
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 03:04 PM

If it requires training to play, an ear for pitch, memorization of progressions, and desire and practice to perfect, then yes, it's an instrument.

allie

Subject: RE: Is the voice an instrument?
From: Alice
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 03:37 PM

Shambles, I think you need a new thread title, as Dan Kelly suggested, maybe, "is audience legally part of the band?"

You know most people here will think of the voice as a musical instrument, but I don't think those responses are getting to the heart of your dilemma.

Alice

Subject: RE: Is the voice an instrument?
From: The Shambles
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 03:56 PM

Thanks Alice

The answers are most helpful and interesting and although it may not be a shock to find people here (and musicians generally), consider the voice to be an instrument, they give me plenty of ammunition to argue this particular issue with offers who do not.

In truth I growing a little weary of the 'is the audience legally part of the band' argument. It is most depressing when you read replies from outside the UK, who do not have the problems we have.

Subject: RE: Is the voice an instrument?
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 03:17 AM

Yes.Whether one knows how to "play" the thing has nothing to do with it.If you crack a guitar it won't sound right either.

Subject: RE: Is the voice an instrument?
From: KHNic
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 03:56 PM

Is the voice an instrument?

No.

It is THE instrument.

Subject: RE: Is the voice an instrument?
From: Songwronger
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 09:00 PM

Even stripped of words to sing the voice is amazing. I've been listening to a recording of Daphnis et Chloe lately, a ballet by Ravel. Uses a "wordless chorus" I think it's called in the score. Amazing stuff. The recording by Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony, 1990s sometime. I think it was Andre Previn who called this the greatest piece of music ever written, and many say that Dutoit's recording is the finest ever. Seek it out. About 55 minutes long, painless, good reading music if nothing else. And the voices take their place alongside the other sections of the orchestra.