When/why did vocals-guitar-bass-drums become the vast majority of rock music group makeups? Even with the occasional keyboardist, bands are almost entirely the same instruments.
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Four guys can tour in a van or station wagon with these instruments. It’s *much* harder to get a band started if you’re playing harp, contrabass, and grand piano.
Four guys can tour in a van or station wagon with these instruments. It’s *much* harder to get a band started if you’re playing harp, contrabass, and grand piano.
Adding to the other posts, guitars became standard in Blues, Country, and Jazz when Sears and Penneys sold them cheap on credit. Sharecroppers had very little cash, and most of their money went to the company store. But you could get a guitar mailorder for very little money down. Mandolins, banjos, pianos, harpsicords, and other common instruments were harder to get on credit. Once a lot of people had them, they became common in pawn shops, and instruction books became easy to find, as well as people who could teach you. So the guitar took off, and that formed the basis of Delta music where all three of those forms got their major start.
Adding to the other posts, guitars became standard in Blues, Country, and Jazz when Sears and Penneys sold them cheap on credit. Sharecroppers had very little cash, and most of their money went to the company store. But you could get a guitar mailorder for very little money down. Mandolins, banjos, pianos, harpsicords, and other common instruments were harder to get on credit. Once a lot of people had them, they became common in pawn shops, and instruction books became easy to find, as well as people who could teach you. So the guitar took off, and that formed the basis of Delta music where all three of those forms got their major start.
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