And again Romy you have no idea about me or my interests, but I think you are either:Romy The Cat wrote:Oh, God, Nick you have no idea how wrong you are. Your thinking about music like thinking of an audio person who never hear any sound besides buzzing of oscilloscope. Composing of making music is not beans counting and not pushing of dynamic range across multiple octaves...Nick wrote:No, but if such a perfect string instrument did exist (it cant as you say, but you asked the hypothetical question) then the composer would prefer it every time. if it was perfect then it would by definition have the range and expressive ability of the individual instruments you mention.
A composer would prefer it because he could then with three players write material that produced (for example) three part harmony that covered the musical range, as it is not, he will need many more players to do the same thing.
1. Thinking like a consumer of music not a producer. Every musician I know (myself included) if offered another octave of range on their instrument without any downside (or even with only additional practical problems) would (and does) jump at the idea.
2. Trying to bluster your way out of a mistake in your original post where you made a comparison that actually went against your point not for you.
A large aspect of composing music to be played by actual musicians is exactly bean counting. Do I have enough instruments of that range with that timbre to play that part. Having more range for each would make it so much simpler.