Slide displayed on wall behind a grand piano: What is "playing vocally"? "We should strive to imitate the human voice and lear from it. You may say but how is it possible, since the voice can produce all the sounds of speech? [...], to which I would reply that just as the worthy and perfect painter imitates everything created by nature with the variation of colours, so can wind instruments imitate the sound of the human voice [...] through variations of the breath and of the movements of the tongue [...] I have heard players who can make even the words understood through their playing. It could well be said that the instrument lacks nothing but the form of the human body, just as they say a good painting lacks only the wind." Silvestro Ganassi, La Fontegara, 1535