Talk:Musical instrument

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January 19, 2004	Refreshing brilliant prose	Not kept
March 18, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed
May 5, 2015	Good article reassessment	Kept

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Should VOCALS be Considered a "Musical Instrument"?

I noticed the definition in this article says: "A musical instrument makes sounds. Once humans moved from making sounds with their bodies—for example, by clapping—to using objects to create music from sounds, musical instruments were born."

This excludes the human voice. However, most articles on Wikipedia about singers list in the info box that one of their instruments is "Vocals".

I would like to see consistency on Wikipedia. Would it be best just to amend this one article to conform to all the articles that consider Vocals an instrument? --Diligens (talk) 22:45, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Diligens: The best place for that discussion would either be the talk page of {{infobox musical artist}}, or one of the Village Pumps. Nikkimaria (talk) 23:54, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Worklist toward FAC

Collaboration with Popcornduff

Due attention to modern instrumentation era
Improved coverage of electronic instruments
Improved coverage of drum machines and samplers

--Laser brain (talk) 14:02, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a sentence on samplers. Still lots to do!

IIRC, the lead also needs rewriting. It basically just summarises the history of mainly early instruments - missing coverage of how instruments are actually used. Popcornduff (talk) 10:44, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]