Well if you have a real look on a big screen TV at your vocal chords you'd get that the voice is an instrument.

I've had that 'opportunity' 4 times in the last year.

Bob, you dragged up what I consider to be the thaw in your argument on voice.(Ethnocentric - where music is concerned in this case.)

Were you part of a faculty of music I'd suggest your POV would be 180 degrees the other way.

I think the voice is far more complex than most instruments.

But I'd defer to Matt here, he's the only person I know who taught music in a 'liberal arts' environment, who frequents the environs.

John Conley
Musica est vita