[lbo-talk] Re: Say BYE BYE to VINYL!

[Carl Remick]

>From: Jon Johanning <zenner41 at mac.com>
>
>I would say that it is too bad, in a way, that sound reproduction was ever 
>invented, because in the nineteenth century, for example, many more people 
>learned to play instruments and sing and thus had the pleasure of making 
>music themselves.

But was it a pleasure for their listeners?  Maybe fewer but better musicians 
is a good idea.


>Today, a lot of people who might have discovered their musical abilities if 
>they had lived then just plug iPod buds in their ears and accept what they 
>hear as music.

I've often thought I could have had a great career as a manuscript 
illuminator and curse the day Johann Gutenburg was born :)

Carl