Klarinet Archive - Posting 000068.txt from 2007/10

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: the effect of technology
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:43:04 -0400

Thanks, Scott.

Here's John Phillip Sousa's spin on the matter. Notice that it says
"attributed to." I'm not sure that the quote has been
authenticated. -- Oliver

"These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of
music in this country. When I was a boy...in front of every house in
the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the
songs of the day or old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines
going night and day. We will not have a vocal chord left. The vocal
chord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail
of man when he came from the ape." -- attributed to John Phillip
Sousa in a report to the U.S. Congress on the subject of the
phonograph, early 20th century

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