From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2016102821365333111-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > no need to get all traumatic .... :-)  Or should that be dramatic ... :-)   
      
   Whenever I hear rhetoric to the effect that we should just let others   
   manipulate us as they please, that's More than sufficient cause to get   
   'traumatic'!   
      
   > You can use whatever you want. I won't tell.   
      
   The Sales records tell...they tell the industry NOT to stop producing those   
   'old fashioned' instruments!   
      
   > ha.   
      
   > Of course gredy capitalists like Dr Moog want to ruin the world for money.   
   > That's what they do, make cool things that other people want enough to   
   > buy.  That's the sad shape ofthe world, we'll just have to live with it.   
      
   Jim   
      
   The problem is that somehow those characters think everyone should just give   
   up all the other instruments they Love and only buy theirs!   
   They should be satisfied that  musicians buy their products considering that   
   the number one keyboard is the piano, including it's variant, the  electric   
   piano, next is the organ, then clavinet and other sonically rich polyphonic   
   keyboards. And remember, synthesizers used to be only monophonic, which   
   limited to either melody lines, or arpeggios. Sure it's fun to play with the   
   myriad controls to see what wild new sounds can be...synthesized...but not   
   even that could ever replace primary 'arsenal' instruments, no matter how   
   much an overzealous merchant might wish.   
      
   So really it all comes down to being that just because something may be   
   useful, that in no way means that it will replace other things just as if   
   not even more useful. It's like the  sitar...I knew a couple of guys, a   
   father and son, who owned a company that made stamped steel baskets for   
   loudspeakers who both played sitars and Loved them...but why should that   
   mean that everyone who currently plays stringed instruments should give them   
   up and play sitars? And I understand sitars are quite challenging to learn   
   which means that the comment about people not wanting to go to all the   
   trouble to learn something new could also be applied to learning how to play   
   the sitar.   
      
   It's still about Personal Preferences and Respecting those Choices!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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