Re: Question re degrees of the scale (and my intro to this group)

"Fiona Abrahami" <fiona@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:fp450p$nn4$1$8302bc10@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Lets put it like this; an instrument is a tool, an implement for making 
> stuff with, in this case music. It's a machine you operate, or control,
to 
> produce an output.
>
> Like a car, there are controls you operate to make it work and which
have 
> to been manipulated with precision to get the best out of the vehicle - 
> these are like the keys of the piano, or the strings and frets of a 
> guitar - and then there is the highway code which tells you how to
operate 
> the vehicle with relation to the road, other road-users and pedestrians 
> etc. - this is like music theory. By combining operating skills with
rules 
> of the road you get you, your car and your passengers safely from A to B

> without wrecking anything.
>

Interesting analogy, Fiona.  Perhaps it (and the American Idol-like
wor****p 
of dilettantism) explains the generally declining quality of American 
drivers I've observed lately!

Tom K.