h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I loved the thing on music, but you forgot one very beautiful instrument: THE FLUTE! (Left out my favorite instrument.) Well that just leaves me to include this wonderful noisemaker. The flute is one of the most versatile. It can even be played in jazz compositions, believe it or not. (Why you'd leave it out is beyond me.) It's cousin, the piccolo, has the highest range of all the instruments in a symphony. Flutes provide light and airy passages, dark ones, too. The flow of music from the "Silver Wonder" is breathtaking. Count on it to move a person. Without the flute, I'd be stuck on clarinet (no offense to all those well- and not-so-well musicians). Give a listen to a piece written for the most beautiful instrument, next to the violin and the piano, and you'll see what I mean.

And the electric bass, a seriously cool instrument.

Talking about the electric bass: IMHO&IMOE the electric bass is the only instrument that you can't deliberately choose to play. If playing the EB is your fate (charma, destiny, kismet), sooner or later the EB will find its way to you and hum seducing tunes into your soul.

In other words: The bass chooses YOU, not the other way round.

If it doesn't want to be played by you, all you can learn to do is to merely operate it (with quite stunning results somehow, no doubt about that).

*trying to remember the moment when I walked into a store looking for some classical piano music and all over sudden an EB hanging from the wall started humming 'I wanna be played by you, just you and nobody else but you ... I wanna be played by you alone ... doob-doob-bedoo'*

Jeremy

It chose me alright!