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From: maverick@oak.Berkeley.EDU (Vance Maverick)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: responsibility
Keywords: Intonation systems, octaves, pianos, computers
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Date: 10 Nov 89 19:56:27 GMT
References: <3111@husc6.harvard.edu> <various> <3068@husc6.harvard.edu> <1553@esquire.UUCP>
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In article <3111@husc6.harvard.edu>, elkies@brauer.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies) writes:

> That wasn't quite what I meant...  Only that, as with text
> typesetting programs, the surface sound of synthesizer output
> can be seductively appealing quite independently of musical
> content, tempting the composer to accept what in another
> medium (s)he would further improve/revise.