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Wayne Petti is a Canadian singer - songwriter best known the vocalist for indie rock band Cuff the Duke . He has contributed to projects by Blue Rodeo , The Hylozoists and Hayden in addition to releasing material on his own and as part of his side - project Grey Lands . Instrumental rock is rock music that emphasizes musical instruments and features very little or no ___MASK2___ . Examples of instrumental rock can be found in practically every subgenre of rock , often from musicians who specialize in the style . Instrumental rock was most popular from the mid - 1950s to mid - 1960s , with artists such as Bill Doggett Combo , Jimmy Reed , Earl Bostic , The Fireballs , The Shadows , and The Ventures . Surf music had many instrumental songs . Many instrumental hits came from the R & B world . Funk and disco produced several instrumental hit singles during the 1970s . The Allman Brothers Band have many instrumentals . Jeff Beck also recorded two instrumental albums in the 1970s . Progressive rock and art rock performers of the 1960s and 1970s did many virtuosic instrumental performances . A multi - instrumentalist is a musician who plays two or more musical instruments at a professional level . Multi - instrumentalists who play closely related instruments , a practice known as doubling are common in orchestra ( e . g ., ___MASK14___ players who double on piccolo and percussion players , who play ___MASK52___ , cymbals , ___MASK54___ , etc .), in jazz ( e . g ., saxophone players who double on clarinet or ___MASK14___ ; or ___MASK98___ players who also play electric bass ); in music theatre pit orchestras ( e . g ., reed players who are required to play numerous reed instruments ); and in other areas of classical music ( e . g ., church piano players are often expected to play the church ' s pipe organ or Hammond organ as well ). Popular music composers and songwriters are often multi - instrumentalists . In pop and rock , it is more common than in classical or jazz for performers to be multi - instrumentalists on instruments that are not from the same family : it is common for pop and rock musicians to play both ___MASK27___ and keyboards . Many bluegrass musicians are multi - instrumentalists . Some musicians ' unions or associations specify a higher rate of pay for musicians who double on two or more instruments for a performance or recording . The Hylozoists are a Canadian instrumental rock supergroup formed in 2001 in Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada . The band ' s name is derived from hylozoism and was started as a side project of record producer and multi - instrumentalist Paul Aucoin .