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Thread #53237   Message #818291
Posted By: KateG
04-Nov-02 - 02:53 PM
Thread Name: Pre-TV: 70% played music. Post-TV ,5%
Subject: RE: Pre-TV: 70% played music. Post-TV ,5%
It might help, too, if schools encouraged children to learn and play instruments other than band/orchestra ones. After all, the sousaphone (to pick a random example, with no offense intended to those who love the instrument) is hardly a good jamming instrument, or one that is endearing to neighbors late at night. Encouraging kids to explore folk music, bluegrass, old-time, jazz, etc. -- even rennaisance and early baroque -- genres that were developed and supported by and for players who played in their own homes for their own enjoyment and that of their close friends, rather than the concert/marching band stuff that was commissioned for paid professionals to play for passive listeners.

KateG