leeneia - quite informative. I don't read music, or play MIDI's, so the computer stuff is over my head, but the "brother in law's line" was an eye opener. It got me to thinking about the relationship between music and commerce/wealth over the centuries.

Were there ever any rich fat-cats who learned to play music on their own, rather than hiring "living music boxes"? (Henry the Eighth?) And at what point does it stop being demeaning and become meaningful to compose/perform for money?   Sort of like the question about high-priced baseball, basketball and football players being entertainers or athletes?

I imagine, however, that when Catspaw spies this subject line he'll have a completly different interpretation of what this is all about :)!