Actually, he did. He just couldn't hear it through his hearing loss, but he could feel the vibrations. That's one reason he liked thunderous bass and playing pianos so hard he broke them. ;-) Charles Linart wrote: > Great point. For that matter, I think sound takes the humanity out of > music. Much better to express everything in musical or mathematical > notation and leave it up to the imagination. Beethoven didn't need no > stinkin' sound. > > On Jan 22, 2008 11:50 AM, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Friday 18 January 2008 03:37:44 Charles Linart wrote: >>> Hello everybody. Have been experimenting lately. Reared on dear old >>> Dad's Radio Shack cassette recorder and vanilla four-track analog >>> recording, I've always been pretty much a straight-shootin' audio guy. >>> Linux audio has opened up new worlds to me. Nowadays, I'm getting >>> into MIDI, and while I still think it stinks as a general rule (takes >>> the humanity out of music IMHO), I can see its utility. >> I think instruments take the humanity out of music. Far better to have >> unaccompanied voices. >> >> Gordon -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
