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submitted 10 months ago by kinther@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

This isn't a "go back in time and assassinate" someone question. It's just their musical career never takes off and thus any music they ever would have made is no longer in this timeline.

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[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

Nah, guitar is the musical equivalent to football (soccer). It's cheap, easy to learn, you can take it with you, and you can play with your friends.

The trope of a kid turning up with their guitar couldn't happen with a piano.

[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

You're right. I shouldn't have suggested that the piano would be more popular than guitar, only that you might have heard a lot more piano if Jerry Lee had been the face of white rock instead of Elvis.

People are going to play whatever they can get their hands on. I remember reading in a Muddy Waters biography about someone who started off writing songs using an old piano wire attached to a shack because that's all he had available.

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Nothing wrong with suggesting a different idea :)

It would have been cool to watch 90's kids humping pianos to band practice with their friends though :D

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 10 months ago

So you're saying we could have had the keytar decades earlier?

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