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Skriven 2012-01-20 23:04:36 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 19949 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: new stuff 70
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 15 Jan 12  22:44:00 <=-

 NB>> Makes me wonder how competent the teacher was then.. or at least what
 NB>> she was thinking... ;)

 ML> It makes sense in many ways and is still accepted practice.

Ah.

 ML> Pros:
 ML> The group gets to play more interesting music when there's
 ML> an alto part.
 ML> The chimera instrument is relatively easy to play, compared
 ML> to a real viola, especially for a smaller person.

Which is about what I remembered about the situation...

 ML> Cons:
 ML> The chimera instrument sounds bad.
 ML> It usually sacrifices one of the players' interests (the
 ML> new violist is usually an unwilling one).
 ML> It usually makes the person hate the viola, for starters,
 ML> and possibly music in general.

At least I don't recall my sister being all that unwilling... she
thought it an interesting experience... but she didn't stay long with
any string instrument... I don't really remember those details.  She
didn't get turned off of music at least... we all learned to play
recorders, and still occasionally get together a family group to play
recorder music, and Mommy taught all of us some piano (although I and
another sister are the only ones that really did much with that).  Music
runs in the family... I think that it's in our blood, so even an
unauthentic viola wouldn't have turned her off to music in general... :)

 ML> Title: Chicken & Stuffing Bread
 ML> Categories: Breadmaker, Breads, Kind of weird

Yup... kind of weird...  ;)  No chicken in it, either... just eggs... ;)

ttyl        neb

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