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

[joanna bujes]

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