• Knusper@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, with electronic help, like a looping device or just recording different tracks one after another, you can obviously do amazing things, but you end up lacking a lot of flexibility to quickly improvise or adjust yourself to what’s happening in the other voices.

    Having said that, in an orchestra, you don’t really want most of the instruments to go wild, so simple instruments would still be a thing. Even today, there’s lots of instruments where one hand just holds the instrument.
    I guess, with 4 arms, you could attempt to play two violins at the same time, though.

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    1 year ago

    Have you seen an organ? It’s basically several keyboards stacked on top of each other, including a single-octave one for your feet.

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      1 year ago

      Now imagine that, but stack a set of drums on top. Maybe even add 2 additional legs while we’re at it!