Re: [LAU] OT: Benchmark Your Hearing

On Wed, 28 May 2008 23:35:12 +0200
Fons Adriaensen <fons@email-addr-hidden> 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
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