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

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Mon Jan 31 11:09:16 PST 2005


It's not black and white. It's the multiple edged sword. It's good to be able to hear music from the Andes in Peoria. It's bad that learning to play a musical instrument is now a career rather than a passtime. Of course, putting back musical education in the schools would help.

Joanna

Carl Remick wrote:


>> 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
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