XPost: rec.music.dylan, uk.music.folk   
   From: william.black@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   On 09/07/10 07:53, John Gray wrote:   
   > Will Dockery wrote:   
   >> On Jul 8, 7:02 am, William Black  wrote:   
   >>> On 08/07/10 07:11, Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>>> On Jul 7, 8:33 pm, "M. Rick" wrote:   
   >>>>> Getting back to this question, I know a lot of folk-styled   
   >>>>> musicians, and every one of them uses /pickups/ to amps for thier   
   >>>>> acoustic guitars. So, technically, they'd be considered "electric",   
   >>>>> right?   
   >>>>> If we don't consider the tonal and stylistic differences (i.e. music),   
   >>>>> then anything transmitted by electricity can be called "electric."   
   >>>>> "James Taylor, electric vocals." "Arthur Rubinstein, electric piano."   
   >>>> Yes, which makes the question one to be questioned.   
   >>>> --   
   >>>> Will Dockery, Folk Rock / Blues / Experimental:   
   >>>> http://www.myspace.com/willdockery   
   >>> I used to be a regular at a folk club where they thought that way.   
   >>>   
   >>> It closed...   
   >>   
   >> Standard practice for performing musicians -to be heard- is to plug   
   >> in, and sing through a mic.   
   >>   
   >> "Electric".   
      
   >>   
   > A cooleague at work has told me of seeing Tony Bennett recently at   
   > Bridgwater Hall in manchester, where he sang an encore without the aid   
   > of the microphone. And, she claims, was heard perfectly well.   
      
   And opera singers don't use them either.   
      
   So?   
      
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