(Gets abestos pants on...)
I probably count as an instrumentalist - I play all keyboard parts (and sometimes sax, guitar and bass and drum and percussion parts) for all music I produce - (theres some stuff of mine on this forum's radio that whats I can play, but it was edited afterwards to make it tight - Late Night Messin is probably a good example, or Sunset and Escape on my soundcloud page).
However there is no way in hell I can consistently play to the level of tight precision needed for most modern dance music so I end up tweaking and quantizing most stuff I record. I can probably manage keys for the loosness of the average guitar band.
I think 'musician' is regarded very broadly these days - a musician makes music - period. Whether by programming everything, playing instruments, or even just writing and getting someone else to play it (human programming?), or hashing together loops etc...
In this sense - most of us here are musicians - the ones who aint are those who cant actually string a musical peice together, nor play anything that is involved in music, or are strictly DJs, or are strictly sound engineers etc.
A DJ isnt a musician - a turtablist is (IMHO) - Turntablists are usualy also DJs, very few DJs can count themselves as turntablists.
The grey area to my mind is someone who create music pieces by stringing together and mixing pre-made samples and loops - ie where they are not actually writing any melodies or chord progressions, or writing rhythms etc, just mixing it all up - they aint musicians by any definition I can think of.
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