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>The human voice is the ultimate instrument.

I strongly disagree. A voice is so limited in every single way. There is so much more that can be done with a proper musical instrument, especially those capable of multiple simultaneous notes. The piano is a good example.

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Traditional (not electric) piano have very inflexible tuning options. Human voice, violin, trombone, ... much better in this regard.

Even if you not thinking about "exotic"(at least for westerners) scales, but simple&clear western accords like just intonation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_intonation#Singing_and_sc...

edit - music recommendation:

https://ziaspace.bandcamp.com/album/drum-n-space

You can always have multiple people singing if you don't count that as cheating. If limits are the deciding factor of an instrument's ultimateness, then I raise that a computer with quality sound hardware + hard drives full of real world audio samples + programmable oscilators is the ultimate instrument.

Now that I played my role as captain obvious, fuck it, piano is really the best! (No sarcasm)

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