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Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to.

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

My central quest was to have a piece played on the saxophone sound like more than one instrument, exploiting different registers and wide interval leaps.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

I play a bunch of instruments.

Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.