On 1/7/2011 5:49 PM, Horace Greeley wrote: > That said, I think that almost all of us have instruments out there of > which we are (at the very least) less than proud. I've got some real > stinkers I'd like to have back, if for no other reason than to set > fire to them. What matters, I think, is what we learn from a given > situation and how we incorporate whatever that learning might be into > our future work and understanding. No doubt, if you did set fire to them, the oil and wax would burn miraculously well. I tend to be on the cautious side with any but the most horrendous instruments -- on the one hand, I have fewer pianos that I would prefer to burn; on the other, not daring to make as many mistakes probably slowed and obstructed my learning. It's a slow and high friction way of working. My best learning experiences have come from someone thrusting an emergency into my hands, and giving me very little time to resolve it. Susan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110107/6ff33e90/attachment.htm>
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