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Re: The Pandemic Thread

Author: Matt74
Date: 2021-04-30 12:20

I'm afraid of what will happen to classical / jazz / western music. With schools not completely open band may decline even further. Limits on performances and audiences are not good. YouTube videos are fine, but they're not a real substitute for people actually playing together in a normal social way. Real music is live, not virtual.

I can't sell student clarinets online, and I see established techs are also having problems. Professional horns and saxophones do seem to have a market, although I see that some people are selling their personal horns too. We need young people starting, not just older people continuing. I wanted to be a tech, but I'm not sure that's reasonable now. This summer and next summer will tell - maybe schools will have a bunch of horns that need fixed because they got neglected for a year or two, and I'll get a job.

I am VERY not happy with the whole thing right now. I realize things are starting to open up more, but until the masks are gone and the officials are saying "live your life again, it's worth it", I don't see hope for anything remotely "normal". I do not believe that the total policies pursued were either reasonable or moral (or necessary) but I'll leave it at that.

I got a lot better at Recorder, but I have no one to play with. I can't even sing in church anymore.

It's like living in "Aliens", where they find Ripley in that miserable little white cubicle/apartment when she's got PTSD and no one believes her.

- Matthew Simington

Post Edited (2021-04-30 12:29)

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