Re: [LAU] Marrying MIDI with Music

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.

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Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
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