On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:49:13PM +0100, Frank Wales wrote: > Reminds me of a comment I heard once by a professional symphony orchestra > musician about some of his conservatory-trained colleagues: "they're > wonderful musicians, but they couldn't play 'Happy Birthday' without > the score in front of them." Having worked with hundreds of not thousands of them, I can only report that most of them are perfectly capable of playing "happy birthday" without a score and in any key you want. There are exceptions - some of them somehow managed to get their official credentials without having any musical feeling - but these are exceptions. Ciao, -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user