Klarinet Archive - Posting 000783.txt from 2002/06

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Fwd: Brains
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:27:40 -0400

Curious. Why would you presume (or find it easier to believe) that people
develop that part of the brain vs. some people are born with a larger area
of the brain that would predispose them to being musicians? The brain
doesn't grow larger with use (or we'd all be suffering some sort of extreme
inter-cranial pressure). Nature's not necessarily egalitarian even if we
wish it otherwise?

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Hausmann [mailto:bhausmann1@-----.net]

My presumption would be that, if true, it is because musicians, through
use, DEVELOP that portion of the brain more, not that the size would
incline us toward music. I don't find any problem with that logic.

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