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i wonder what the next instrument will be

the 20th century brought us… the electric guitar, the bass guitar, and the drumkit, in the process inventing… the band? not to mention the synthesizer.

@hikari it's really interesting if you look into how the drumkit developed ex nihilo. Apparently it came out of New Orleans marching bands

@mcc i tweeted this thread because i discovered to my horror that the bass guitar as a concept is basically always electric, for amplification reasons, and so the “electric bass guitar” is better known as the “bass guitar”, because it replaced the… contrabass. and in that moment i realised all the “standard” instruments that aren't the piano are very “new”

@mcc the drumkit is a weird one because it is an instrument but technically it's as old as drums itself in some sense???

@mcc (drums… themselves?)

@hikari the modern idiom of it is pretty recent and took a good 30 years of iteration to hit it's modern form

@hikari I will send you a video later it is interesting