I could call a picture like that... Sloplung! -- 10/18/10

[smick]

Wait, what?  I am going to have to call bullshit on that.  Or was that a joke?

I think he means to say "Electric guitar".

[KeithHernandez]

But he was replying to this:

It is interesting how early inventors of electronic instruments didn't go straight for "it's a guitar, but electric" or "it's a piano, but electric." They went for these weird theremin-type things that mostly seem good for making weird noises.

[pmcd9]

It was a joke. 

But what I should have said is that the people that created these instruments were trying to create something new to play serious music.  Music to be played in music halls alongside violins and cellos.  And at that time the guitar wasn't a serious instrument, it was primarily used for playing folk music and jazz.  There is no guitar in the symphony.

And simply making something electric is not the same thing at all as making something electronic.  If you just wanted to amplify something, well they already knew how to do that. 

[Lister]

"What's happening?" Oedipa whispered.

"That's by Stockhausen," the hip graybeard informed her, "the early crowd tends to dig your Radio Cologne sound. Later on we really swing. We're the only bar in the area, you know, has a strictly electronic music policy. Come on around Saturdays, starting midnight we have your Sinewave Session, that's a live gettogether, fellas come in just to jam from all over the state, San Jose, Santa Barbara, San Diego."

"Live?" Metzger said, "electronic music, live?"

"They put it on the tape, here, live, fella. We got a whole back room full of your audio oscillators, gunshot machines, contact mikes, everything man. That's for if you didn't bring your ax, see, but you got the feeling and you want to swing with the rest of the cats, there's always something available."