Author: ThatPerfectReed
Date: 2014-04-17 15:47
Mr Comeaux (wanabe):
I'm glad you had the experiences you did and that they brought you joy--really. Still further, not for one moment do I wish to detract from the abilities of Picasso, Heifitz, Stradivarius, or those who were members of the Julliard String Quartet at the time you saw them.
But what does interest me is if you never heard of these artists before...if you casually passed a painting that happen to be one done by Picasso, if you had just heard Heifitz (in full fidelity sound) switching stations on a radio, or had the quartet you heard happen to be playing just for fun in a church rec. room as you strolled by, you being entirely unaware of the musician's stature or the make of the string instruments they were playing on, might you have been as moved?
My questions go to the essence of seperating the differences between the value of things based upon who made or used them, their value as collectables, and their value to us as musicians based solely on how they play for us. As it regards the latter, perhaps our trying the instrument, independent of who makes, endorses and uses it, or how "shiny" it is, is what's most important.
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