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"Mr. Jones has taught himself to play over 13 instruments."
"I don't care what you think of it; it is the greatest instrument you will ever own."
"Everything's an instrument to me, honestly everything."
"The guitar was like a magnet, you know, it could draw people in."
"Using suitable instruments and the right key is necessary to create the correct vibe."
"He played instruments so he was able to, you know, start with the grind and you know turn into a whole different expression for himself."
"It's Glen Campbell, it's John Paul Jones on the melotron on the zeppo. I mean what's the difference tonight?"
"Is this significant look at the bass guitar of yellow flowers; it only has three strings, could it be that the fourth missing string is Paul?"
"The instrumental to the song is really cool. It's so joyful."
"I like to play baritones because I do a lot of drop tuning, really sharp and drop B."
"I think some of the greatest pedals ever made are broken pedals. That's the point."
"The right flute melody can bring the listener to tears."
"It's probably been on more Pink Floyd tracks than any other guitar."
"Whether you're a professional, a hobbyist, or simply a fan of music, it's pretty much a guarantee that you've heard sounds coming from instruments emblazoned with those four letters that form that strange word."
"I knew music was a conduit, and instruments were already right there."
"The exs24 is one of the deepest, most powerful instruments that comes with logic."
"What you can be sure of is that you're receiving a precision instrument of a very high quality."
"If I could have one thing to make music with forever, it wouldn't be a drum machine or a modular synth, it would be a piano."
"As a musician, it's just so impressive seeing the instruments up close."
"These instruments have the power to make dreams come true."
"Great is God that he hath furnished us these instruments wherewith we shall till the earth."
"The whistles produce a strange sound indeed, but no one is certain whether the Aztecs had a specific technique when blowing into it."
"Multi-spectral instruments can discriminate materials, whereas hyperspectral enables us to identify features on the Earth's surface."
"It's a saxophone. I want to play it but no. It looks brand new. So, check it out, guys. Wow."
"Vintage guitars and basses ever made are vintage instruments now."
"I think that's the beauty of instruments, is they all have their own voice and they do something really special."
"These instruments are extremely valuable and definitely worth repairing."
"With a low budget, we'll grab freebies and smaller affordable instruments whenever we can. You'll greatly benefit from the full version of Kontakt so you can run every Kontakt sample library."
"It's one of the most widespread shared cultural things, the experience of hearing an acoustic instrument in life."
"The majority of the sound that you're hearing is the effect of the body on the sound the string makes."
"That's the reason we can tell the difference between a cello and a violin or a guitar and a banjo."
"Behind every great guitarist are some pretty great guitars."
"Being able to go to a music store and buy the thing that's actually what he uses, not something that you'd have to go get it tweaked in order for it to be right."
"Kurt had decided to take better care of his Fender Mustangs. However, he still used disposable guitars."
"It's like a strat versus a les paul. They're playing the same notes, but they sound incredibly different."
"Multi-messenger astronomy allows us to look at nature's laboratory with as many instruments as possible."
"Fender got on board with its own Tweed basement reissues."
"Hands down no question about that whatsoever, unless you're getting a custom shop guitar, there is absolutely no reason to spend twice the money for an inferior instrument."
"Easily hands down one of the best guitars I've had since my twenty-nine-fret Washburn from 1989."
"Having great metrics is like having great instruments in an aircraft."
"This is the instrument that he is most often used for recordings and to be photographed in live appearances."
"Guitars need to be played, they're not meant to sit in the closet. Some of them are tools, but something like that, that thing's seen some wear and tear."
"This was my bass and then I played with Bob Looming and this was my bass."
"The frets on these guys, wide and flat, that's just how they were in this period of time."
"Fender had started giving me some nice bases and I never had nice bases."
"It's more of an awareness of the big picture because guitar is just one of a few instruments in a musical setting to try to fit into a big picture frame, a musical frame, right?"
"He's known for smashing these things so to have a chunk of a Stratocaster with like the original pickups and some other good stuff, I feel like that's a cool little piece for someone's collection."
"When it comes to real instruments, pianos, strings, trumpets, all that kind of stuff, contact is my go-to."
"I'm a guitar player that plays piano like you just heard, yeah functional, functional piano playing."
"It's one of the best sounding guitars I've ever played."
"Rather they’re instruments that can be played around and experimented with."
"That's my thing, is that, you know, being in a studio, doing records, you always need all these things - 'It needs a Tele, or it needs a PRS, or it needs a Strat, whatever it may be, and I have one of everything.'"
"I had finally found something or an instrument that would give me the true essence of trading."
"An instrument with the name prophet blazoned on it... will likely make most synthesis a little weaker than these."
"I am endlessly interested in our fascination with the guitars that were used by famous players. Why do we ascribe so much meaning to the instruments when deep down we know it's the wisdom of the players that we seek?"
"Microphones are like instruments; they're another tool in your arsenal."
"So, to conclude, yes, I'm having a lot of fun. It's, uh, sometimes honestly, it feels like cheating because it's so much easier than other instruments that I have."
"Moog are known for making just gorgeous sounding instruments and I think it's very much self-evident. The circuits sound great. They just sound damn great and they're really well tuned."
"Guitars are meant to be played, pedals are meant to be used."
"McCartney would go on to use that bass as his main instrument in his band Wings."
"If the wood's wet or not, what kind of resonance it has. Woods make a difference in instruments."
"There's something wonderful about guitars. You can't do this with a B3."
"There's a lot of great acoustic 12 strings out there but I'll take a Guild jumbo 12, hands-down, it'll win anything."
"You have a good song if you can play it on acoustic guitar or play it on the piano."
"We have financing for, but really it's the guitar that you need that's the one that you're going to be playing and that's really what it's all about."
"The lead instruments, background instruments, and everything in between are so clear and vivid."
"I've tried most of the guitar synths and stuff, but I just prefer my instruments. It's very human and it makes the right noise."
"Federer instruments are some of the best instruments, period. I really believe that, and I really do believe it's because they have one kind of quality."
"He's really picky about amps and guitars and sounds, so all of that was on purpose."
"...the guitars are hitting these big chords while the bass and drums are driving the beat along."
"To me, I don't think there's a Les Paul sound and a Strat sound as much as there is a humbucker sound and a single coil sound."
"Now you know what your instruments sound like, we can play them all together."
"Some of the nicest sounds you get are the blends between the pickups."
"One of the things I always encourage is walking into a music store and seeing your first maple neck tele."
"the sm57 classic instrument cardioid dynamic microphone that you can use on literally everything you can use it on your voice you can use it on loud guitar amps right behind me you can use it on drums like a snare drum they just seem to work all the time."
"Instruments should not carry the feeling of 'iness' or ego."
"Everyone loves the musical instruments."
"The poor in the chemistry of God's salvation are somehow the instruments of God's breakthrough."
"I believe in using live instruments, especially where the music is going now."
"The odometer stopped, but the speedometer is working."
"It's not just the guitars, it's the drums."
"Music. Real music involves instruments and notes."
"In a way, if that came up, the idea that you're talking about, maybe this is related to that because these are all new instruments, sure, yeah. But they're all keyboards, yeah, yeah."
"So, I want every woman in this room to win. I have no competition with you."
"So, held back here the heavy artillery. The heavy artillery in the orchestra is what? The brass and sometimes percussion."
"It's nice to have something that you know will work and that you can put all these instruments together and you're gonna have a solid album."
"Did you know that the piano is actually a percussion instrument?"
"It was indescribable for scale we asked we actually pleaded for Jacob to reassemble his one-man show to show how he uses technology instruments and voice to create original works of art man you are in for a treat."
"All his guitars were filthy. If you sat down and played, you'd have to wash your hands."
"It's limitless because you're able to program your own samples into the instrument."
"Both these instruments are incredible. They're both capable of doing extraordinarily beautiful sounding synthesis."
"Better to have several instruments maybe not so complex but spend a lot of time go as deep as possible on all their features."
"It's the Strat, it's the...it's the jazz bass and the P bass of Guitar World."
"It's like an offset Stratocaster essentially."
"Both of these have like I mentioned the built-in chord engines."
"I didn't even realize how to get different... piano sounds... I thought we were stuck with just a few."
"It's not sacrilege to swap the positions of oboe and clarinet, so long as you know what you're doing."
"Instruments melded and I could hear group sets."
"There's nothing super fancy about them, I just went online and just bought the most basic standard set of Roto-Toms you can find."
"Modern weather men depend on a variety of specialized instruments to gather information."
"A large part of EMF spectrum wherever atmosphere windows are available, instruments and sensors have been developed."
"So, it's getting closer to that morph between a Fender and a Gibson, yeah, that's good."
"When it comes down to music, guitars, amps, pedals, you are the most important factor. What do you want the guitar to feel like? What do you want it to play like?"
"You can make a wide variety of sounds with them."
"Because every time that I make a short history video about one of my favorite artists I find myself tripping over the fact that they played a Les Paul special at some point early on."
"These guitars cannot, 'cause you'll be out tuned by the end of the first bar of the first song."
"These are truly magnificent instruments."
"Once it became apparent that I was going to be the bass player for a while, it was time to buy a real bass."
"Out of all my basses, this is the one that gets used the most."
"My granddad gave me a mandolin when I was about six, because my hands were small. He just had instruments around. Yeah, he played the fiddle and the mandolin and banjo and the guitar."
"That guitar was my tool. That was what I was."
"The first actual amplifier I still have, and I played it this afternoon."
"This stock sound is beefy, it's nice."
"Some guitars just want to be in tune, you know? Some of them just go right in tune; you don't even have to try."
"What he done was to take a vast armamentarium of instruments telescopes sextant squadrons parameters and so on."
"General music theory applies to all instruments."
"One of the most famous instruments in the world might be Paul McCartney's famous bass."
"The distinctive violin shaped 1961 electric Hofner went missing and was rumored to have been stolen around the time the Beatles were recording their final album, Let It Be."
"He just like and then um we we asked one of his bandmates about that McCartney and he said well he stopped doing that when you realize the thing was even that one was still worth a fortune."
"The step sequencer is a different way to approaching not just drums and percussion but also pitched instruments as well."
"The guitar and the piano are your two main chord instruments. Every song needs chords, chords are the foundation of a song."
"Musical instruments have always used the most advanced technology at the time."
"This is a 26-inch kick drum which is completely different from anything I've ever played before."
"I HAVE EVERYTHING THAT I NEED. I HAVE A TON OF MALLETS, BUT, YOU KNOW, THE MORE REFINED YOU GET IN THINKING ABOUT SOUNDS, THE MORE YOU WANT TO DIG DEEPER INTO GETTING THE SOUND THAT YOU WANT."
"You don't trust what you see in front of you. The way that you fly, whenever you're up in the clouds, is you don't do it by, you know, kind of what you see and how you feel. You trust the instruments that you have within the plane."
"The first one, with all the clapping and busy part, would be the 808."
"It's crazy to me that these guitars didn't catch on as much as say the pointy guitars like the ESPs of the era."
"The acoustic guitar is a beautiful instrument. It is as simple as it could possibly be."
"It's the greatest collection of keyboard instruments in the entire Western hemisphere."
"There's some great music being written out there and these kids want bands, they want real instruments."
"The most important thing was the flute having a sweet sound."
"Embrace all variations of rhythmic instruments: bass, drums, and cordal instruments."
"The stage piano, stage EP, and organ instruments are simply outstanding."
"We have bass drum snare tambourine closed and open hat metallic beat and cymbal."
"If regular offerings don't excite you from Gibson, always check out your dealers because sometimes they get something a little bit more fancy and exclusive."
"Tools and instrument questions evaluate your familiarity with common tools and instruments used in mechanical work."
"Really, really good, great guitar, I loved the P90s in that thing."
"It's not easy for a guitar to handle 90 degrees, like 35 Celsius, with humidity in the 70-80 percent range."
"They definitely each have a distinct personality that's grown up over eight decades of playing."
"The historic instruments... they will carry that treatment so well."
"I love this Gretsch a lot, and I got my full size now, and I like them both for different reasons."
"This keyboard has always played these pipes, nothing else has played the pipes except for this."
"I love how these Gibson sound so much, they're like some of my favorite amps ever."
"The action is the lowest I've ever played on an acoustic out of the box in my entire life."
"It's one of those 'I don't know if I've ever been missing this in my life' kind of guitars."
"Like most keyboards, this thing offers a fair degree of customizability."
"You really can't ever tell if you like a guitar until you get it home and plug it into your own amp and setup."
"Not only am I making the video, I'm buying one. I just love their guitars."
"Koa and ukuleles go together like peas and carrots."
"You cannot wear out stainless steel frets."
"It's a vast universe out there, and the exploration of the cosmos requires huge instruments."
"The feel is just amazing; honestly, I have a bunch of premium guitars, and Yonder's fret job feels better than most of my guitars."
"We're using folk instruments from the medieval herdy gurdy through Gaelic and Celtic fiddles all the way to like lyra distorted drone synths."
"It's amazing what can do when there is an instrument that fits their body size."
"The race was on to develop a keyboard instrument that went beyond the organ to give a realistic impression of strings."
"When you're instrument flying, you can't see where you're going and you're basically relying on your instruments."
"The speaker separates individual instruments so well."
"The most commonly looked for keyboard is going to be 88 keys, 88 weighted keys preferably."
"I immediately fell in love with this guitar when I played it."
"Most origins of music are instrumental; it's just instruments played together, it's pure music."
"I love to play bass, bass is fun as hell, it's actually funner than guitar in a way."
"I just love guitar, I love bass, I love rock music."
"When you think of Lemmy, the next words that come to mind should be Marshall amplifiers and Rickenbacker basses."
"It looks like a really well cared-for old instrument, and that's all I ever go for."
"Both very attractive, good-sounding guitars."
"The nice thing about a triple O is that the depth of the body is smaller than on a dreadnought, so it is more comfortable for more body shapes, more sizes of people, men and women alike."
"I just want a guitar that'll put a smile on my face when I pick it up and play it."
"In classical music, what instruments usually comprise a string quartet? Two violins, a viola, and a cello."
"An inspiring guitar always makes you want to play it."
"Every instrument's unique, and unique instruments are worth pursuing."
"The guitars sound and play fantastic."
"These instruments are fantastic, right out of the box."
"Mandolin is just a pretty instrument when it's played."
"This is the Harley Benton TE-52, this is a really nice electric guitar."
"They're both really fabulous instruments and I wouldn't still own them if they weren't great."
"This is actually my favorite guitar."
"All you really want from the acoustic guitar is that it stays in tune, has great intonation, plays easy, and has a great big full sound."
"It's gorgeous, some really well-made guitars as they get older the wood matures and the sound matures."
"It plays like a little bit of a hybrid between an acoustic and an electric."
"Different kinds of strings do affect the outcome of the sound of an instrument."
"Adding all the gold was a necessity. I like gold on my guitars."
"I play everything on this guitar; it's definitely easier to just play this one."
"To me, the playability and the function of the guitar is more important than some of those other things that some people may be worried about."
"This process really makes the guitar a lot more comfortable to play."
"At the end of the day, the best guitar in the world is the one that you're making music on."
"If you have a twist in the neck... just buy a new neck, it's going to be way less expensive and you're going to be way happier with the product."
"Music is an abstraction, and each particular instrument is just a way to instantiate the same common abstraction."
"Not all music is on your phone, some of it comes from real instruments."
"The reason why we love to play is because it felt good in our hands."
"They're affordable, very affordable, and they play great."
"When it comes to Bluegrass, I don't think there's a finer instrument in the world than a good old Martin Dreadnought."
"The electric guitar as an instrument really is incomplete without the amplifier; it is half an instrument."
"A guitar has strings, and each string is a different note."
"There's about 230 strings in a piano."
"Jackson Guitars are known for being edgy and eye-catching."
"What a great sound, I love where they end up, those guitars."
"A modern Spanish guitar usually has how many strings? Six."
"Learn to play an instrument. Why not?"
"Can you think of another band where the keyboards and the bass work so well together and are so prominent?"
"These are great guitars at a certain price point."