There
are musicians that play 5-10 or 10-12 different types of instruments. An
excellent example is Gunhild Carling. This is not so much the result of a
special irreplaceable inherent talent of a special artist as it is the result of a special talented
way to learn playing music. It the result of a special method of learning music and playing music.
Each type of musical instrument is exceptionally good for some specific
style or way of playing the music that no other type of musical instruments is
as comparable good and capable of .
Here si a list of examples
1) FLUTES-WHISTLES
They are particularly good for angelic sound, that because of the
blowing makes the musician emotionally involved more that say just playing with
the hands. Furthermore they are capable of easy trills and ornamentations ,
that other types of wind instruments are not capable.
2) HARMONICAS
They are particularly good for creating easily melodic solos that are by
default 50% intervals of 3rds and 50% intervals of 2nds. They are also very
good in alternating solo with a locally fitting chord or pair of notes. Furthermore
because of the blow and draw of breath they make the musician much emotionally
involved. At low octaves the metal reeds are incorporated very well in the pipe organ which is a sound of better color than wooden reeds.
3) CLARINETS, SAXOPHONES, OBOE, CHALUMEAUX , DUDUK, XAPHOON ETC
They are particularly good in producing loud and non-breathy sound at
the 4th octave compared e.g. to flutes. And as the flutes too they are capable
of easy trills and ornamentations ,
4) TROMBONES
They are exceptionally good in producing loud sound at the low 3rd and
2nd octave, and very close to the human voice. Furthermore, the slide of trombones
gives a very pathetic and human-like glissandi of the sound of the musical
notes which is unique among other instruments.
5) GUITARS, MANDOLINES, BOUZOUKI, UKULELE, CUATRO ETC
The guitars and ukulele-like tuned such instruments are
particularly good in playing easily fast harpisms (parts of arpeggios) over the
strings of a chord , which gives a flowing harmonic solo or counter melody to a
main melody.
6) FRETLESS GUITAR , OUD ETC
Here
the main advantage is of course that can be played , all frequencies , even
outside the 12-notes Bach-scale , like harmonics (overtones) and
subharmonics (undertones). The glissandi that can be produced are
magical. But also one special characteristics is that because there are
not metallic frets, when the string is pressed by the finger on the
fingerboard, that sound is like a muted sound with a slight indeterminacy of
the pitch, like a drop of water falling on a clay pitcher.
7) BOWED STRING INSTRUMENTS
Here obviously the main characteristic advantage is not so much the continuous
sound (which the winds have also), but the rhythm that bowing can give to a
continuous note (which the winds cannot give so easily). Also that it is easier to sustain longer continuous notes compared to flutes.
8) THE HARP, THE PANFLUTE
Here the main advantage are continuous up or down among the full scale
and in many octaves of all the strings and notes ofthe scale. The main area of advantage and "flow" in the harpare diatonic solos and secondly chords and arpeggios of them. The sound of the harp due to the high impedance (because of small sounbox , the energy remains in the strings that pulsate longer) the sound is.....celestial. Furthermore in the harp there is great easiness that we can alternate a solo with its locally fitting chord (as it
is also done with harmonicas, that some times are also called harps).
9) TONGUE DRUMS (HAND PANS, RAV VAST DRUMS ETC)
Here obviously the main characteristic advantage is to play melodic percussion
rhythms.
10) When we shift to digital instruments in the tablet , or as special midi
instruments etc, w get a whole space of different advantages. One of the most
amazing examples is when the notes e.g. of a diatonic scale have a
2-dimenisonal layout (e.g. Vertically by 3rds and horizontally by 2nds) where
we may play randomly horizontally inside say a 5-notes subscale of the diatonic
and vertically in only 3 rows, thus temporarily inside one only chord. This also can be done with string instruments like guitar, oud or cuatro, when the tuning is an overtone tuning, so that the chords of the default scale are played in one or at most 2 frets.
