Joanna
Carl Remick wrote:
>> From: Jon Johanning <zenner41 at mac.com>
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>> 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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