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Old 12-11-2019, 11:42 AM
dwasifar dwasifar is offline
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Originally Posted by catt View Post
(Acoustic) guitar as a melody instrument is pretty thin compared to bowed strings, winds, reeds, etc. (It's why these are often called "melody" instruments)
I always thought those instruments were called that because you can't play chords on them. You can only play sequences of single notes.

Well, technically I guess you can play a pizzicato chord on a violin or its larger siblings, but then it's not a bowed string anymore.
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