Where Are the New Instruments?

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It may be because music industry is hype-driven. It is based on the beliefs of the consumer. Like Steinway is so great. Whether or not it is what matters is the people's adoring attitude towards something great. It is like expensive French wines, they're really not that great but they are expensive, hence wanted.

In electronic popular music you got to have Fender Strato-Caster or Gibson Les Paul. Nothing lesser will do. That is because of the star-myth perpetrated by the music industry.

It's a bit like the diamond industry. Diamonds are expensive because every girl is taught to want one.

So a new instrument? Musicians don't trust them.

Or maybe it's like perhaps counter-intuitively you can't be the best on something which very few people play. You got to be the best on playing the same instrument that the stars play. You can't start your own sport, that would be the equivalent of playing a new instrument. Just a thought, don't know how much truth there is to it

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