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i think trying to learn guitar is going to make me end up appreciating guitar-heavy music more and not just in a marvelling at the skill etc way. it's also that, like, suddenly i am spending long periods of time listening to nothing but the guitar; i'll get used to the tone
‪similarly, my occasional gushing about the roland sc-7 must seem strange if you know that it sounds like a higher quality version of the infamous microsoft gs wavetable synth. but that gushing often follows spending an hour playing a single patch with a keyboard. the ears adjust!‬
‪it's like there's a superficial part of how one engages with a sound and a more fundamental part, and experiencing it by playing it as an instrument puts you more in touch with the latter. something like that!‬
‪kind of a tangent, but one example of that fundamental connection is: velocity response is something you Feel in your fingers while playing a keyboard, even though it's actually something you're hearing. you don't realise this until you experience bad velocity response!‬