According to Wikipedia...”A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument”.
In my 5th semester of Music Theory, one day our professor told us to begin making music with whatever tools we had. The class was slow to respond. A couple people started tapping pencils on their desks. One guy grabbed the trash can and started bongo'ing on it... someone got on the board and reluctantly started scraping chalk... Several folks were just taking it all in with wonderment. Then the professor went to the blackboard and wrote "Everyone must participate!" Then, some people started raising their desks 2" off the floor and dropping them back down...one guy started opening and closing the venetian blinds. Several people started clicking their fingers while others clapped. Me and another guy had a rehearsal to go to so we departed the room - and on the way out we added to the music by slamming the door so hard that it blew ceiling tiles loose and jammed the door. That was the last time we did that exercise. But it was musical!
I sat in a crowded coffee shop in the mid 80's when someone started a rhythm pattern with his coffee spoon on the table.
it took only about a minute and the whole coffee shop started in doing rhythms in different ways.
That lasted for about 2-3 minutes.
Than it abruptly stopped, everybody started laughing and went back to their busyness.
Great experience ...
Eric
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