Re: OT: Benchmark Your Hearing

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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.

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