Think of a musical instrument

[koganbot]

Think of a musical instrument.

What was the first instrument that crossed your mind when I instructed you just now to think of a musical instrument?

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Comments

[koganbot]

Your reaction is similar to Mark's.

Maybe a better way for me to have asked the question would have been:

"Music!"

What instrument is being played?

What instrument first crossed your mind when I asked, "What instrument is being played?"

Doesn't eliminate the word "instrument," but probably does suppress technical, academic thoughts about "musical instrument." But such phrasing of the question would likely provoke a confused or too creative response, some people jumping to scenes from movies or some immediate exciting event and creating a vision of that. I often like people's creative responses, but I was searching here for an individual's most typical response.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Whoa, when I read "Music!" I imagined a kind of clip art image of guitar, bass, drums, lots of exclamation points in my mind. Not sure if there was a clip art piano in there.

[jonathanbogart.livejournal.com]

When I read "Music!" I actually imagined some kind of club setting. So the instrument would be a sound system? A DJ? An infinite number of electronic bits representing all the potential sounds that could be played?