On Wed, 28 May 2008 23:35:12 +0200 Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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, We need them all though the good, the bad and the indifferent:) Hmmm 77.8 I would have hoped for better really :/ -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
