Carl
>From: joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net>
>
>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