
Guitar smashing is certainly the most infamous pastime of rock musicians, but other instruments are sometimes involved, as Moon's example shows.

Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore used to involve in the spiral of destruction his Marshall amplifier too. Jerry Lee Lewis was one of the first artists in popular music to destroy an instrument, setting fire to his piano at the end of a show. Davies names Hendrix, Pete Townshend and Keith Moon, and the list could of course be much longer. More famously, certain musicians in the world of popular music, especially rock, have the habit of sacrificing their instruments to the stage at the end of their show. Some contemporary pieces of music or performance art entail an improper use of an instrument or even its destruction. This paragraph provides a brief account of the variety of cases in which musical instruments have been destroyed or mistreated. There are various artistic contexts in which instrument mistreatment or destruction takes place.

My proposal has the merit, I contend, of showing how the mistreatment of musical instruments is essentially related to the role instruments play in music as an art. In this article, I briefly summarize his position and offer an alternative account. RepealĨ These Regulations come into force on April 23, 1997.Why do we think it is wrong to destroy or mistreat a musical instrument, and what grounds our reactions when we see musical instruments being damaged or destroyed? This is the question Stephen Davies tries to answer in his essay “What is the Sound of one Piano Plummeting?” 1 As far as I am aware, this article is the first contribution by a philosopher of music to the issue of instrument mistreatment. (2) A paid instrument shall be destroyed by shredding, pulping, burning, crushing, erasing or any other means that will ensure that the paid instrument cannot be reused.Ħ If a paid instrument is required for the purposes of any litigation, claim, inquiry, investigation or other examination, the Receiver General or the appropriate minister shall delay destruction of the instrument until it is no longer required for that purpose. (iii) in the case of an electronic instruction for payment, include the digital signature.ĥ (1) Subject to sections 3 and 6, at any time during the seventh year after an instrument has been paid, the Receiver General or the minister who issued the payment or settled the claim, as the case may be, shall destroy the paid instrument in accordance with subsection (2). (ii) enable the identification of the origin and destination of the instruction or claim and the date and time of its transmission or reception, and (i) represent accurately the information generated, transmitted or received,

(b) if the instrument is in the form of a medium, the data contained in it must: (a) the data contained in it must be accessible so as to be usable for later reference and (2) The medium that contains the original instruction or claim may be reused once the data contained in it have been completely erased.Ĥ A paid instrument retained in accordance with section 2 must meet the following requirements: ( registre)Ģ The Receiver General shall have the care and custody of any paid instrument that is provided to the Receiver General in accordance with subsection 36(1) of the Act and shall retain the instrument until it is destroyed in accordance with section 5.ģ (1) If a paid instrument referred to in section 2 is in the form of a medium containing an original instruction or claim, the data contained in it may be reproduced onto another medium. (b) a medium that contains an original instruction or claim or that is used to store that instruction or claim.

(i) instruction for payment or instrument for settlement, or Paid instrument means a record after the amounts specified in the instructions have been paid or the claim has been settled. Medium means a device that is designed for storing and archiving information and includes a magnetic tape, disk and diskette. ActĪct means the Financial Administration Act. 14ġ The definitions in this section apply in these Regulations.
