• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Compare a tenor horn, baritone, ebephone, tuba. All basically the same shame but different sizes. Because changing the size the instrument changes the pitch.

    And you’d find the same for majority of instruments.

    Varying sizes of wind instruments (clarinet, obo etc)

    ukulele vs an acoustic guitar

    Violin, viola, cello, bass

    Electric piano shrank the acoustic version. I suppose electric guitars are smaller than acoustic versions. But like you say the majority of instruments can’t just arbitrarily change size / shrink without impacting the sound