# Instrument Family and Variants Discussion

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/instrument-family-and-variants-discussion/233045
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Tags:** instruments, discussion, style
**Created:** [March 20, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/instrument-family-and-variants-discussion/233045 "2017-03-20T15:20:46Z")
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### Author: ![hiccup](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/hiccup/32/5512_2.png) [@hiccup](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/hiccup)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/instrument-family-and-variants-discussion/233045/6 "2018-08-03T17:02:28Z")

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I just ran Picard on an album from Scott Henderson. (a rather famous guitar player)  
In my tags he is now credited not as playing ‘guitar’, but as playing ‘guitar family’.  
That looks very weird. And I don’t like it to be honest.

Is this a Picard thing, or a MusicBrainz thing?

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