Don't these vile objects just make you want to weep?

Midi Concertina

Midi Bagpipes

Midi Saxophone

Midi Violin

I'm sure the likes of Stradivari, Wheatstone & all other creators of wonderful, natural musical instruments, will be weeping buckets in their graves now!

Granted, the Concertina still looks like a Concertina, but how long before that lovely old box shape we all know & love, becomes a shinny, gaudy coloured plastic or metal mockery of the original?

Can you honestly picture those Midi Pipes being played at a Burns Night?
Let's be honest, if Burns came back, I think we all know where he'd stick that Pipers plastic Midi Chanter!

Quite frankly, I really don't care how close they come to sounding like the 'real thing' they are just WRONG for me, on oh so many levels!

Take a look at this wonderful photo of a Mongolian Orchestra
Look at all these fascinating instruments, which took thousands of years of development, thanks to the efforts of countless musicians & master craftsmen instrument makers, to reach their stage of perfection. Is this how we are going to treat all art forms in the future?

Now picture that same orchestra, standing there, each with some vile looking modern, high tech Midi equivalent of their ancient & traditional instrument in their hands! Can we really say that would be progress.
{ No doubt the Chines Gov. would prefer the old ways to die out! :-( ... but that's another story, for another day. }

If that's the future of music, all I can say is ................... I'm glad I won't be around to see it!

Is this how we are going to treat all art forms in the future?
Maybe we should just paint a Smiley Face on the Mona Lisa while we're at it!

Here are another couple of options you might like to consider: New Improved Mona Lisa

But seriously folks, are the Colin & Rosalie Dippers of this World, really just wasting their time?
Should traditional instrument makers start packing their bags now & start training for jobs in I T? ............................................