Dave Phillips wrote: > david wrote: >> 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. ;-) > I never heard that about Beethoven. Franz Liszt, maybe, but not Ludwig > Van. ;) > > Btw, it may interest some to know that the Amish consider instruments a > worldly vanity. No instruments are used in their music, which is > virtually all church music. A friend here who visits Amish country > regularly tells me that everyone in an Amish family sings, and as far as > he could tell they all sing quite nicely. He said that their > entertainments often took the form of after-meal family singing. > > Would that more of us might do likewise... :) Pity that many institutions in out modern world don't appreciate singing just for the scake of singing. I well remember the moment in grade 4 glee club when I was told just to "mouth" the words. I still don't bother to sing in public ... and that was 50 years ago! Yeah, I'm not the best singer in the world -- and most will, fortunately, never have the dubious honor of discovering that -- but I'm sure that I could have been a lot better with the proper encouragement. Ahh, I rant against the entire education system, when it's just one person who I've not seen for 50 years. Everyone has to have a pet peeve :) BTW, could someone tell me how to reply to messages on this list. I use Thunderbird, and when I hit <reply> I get the poster's address, not the list. So, I kill that message and hit <reply all> and then I have to manually delete the OP name from the "to" line and change the "cc" line to "to" ... I'm feeling quite dumb these days. --- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
