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The new "World Music" is music not played on any instruments that now exist. Music will be created on these new instruments, that won't originate from any one region or people. I'm not excited about that idea. In Neil Postmans's book "Technopoly" (1992), he made the interesting point that people that use computers as their instrument are not "computerers", in the same way that there are writers or composers. But obviously that's changed, as the tools are now more accepted as being virtual. What goes missing is the frequency bands inherent in traditional musical instruments. There is probably a measurable difference between a recording of a real violin and a sample of it played through a speaker.