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Subject: Ned Lud lives in the music world - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 20-Jan-84 23:09:58 EST
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uokvax!emjej    Jan 19 09:36:00 1984

Perhaps this belongs in net.politics, but it concerns musicians, so...

A while back on the BBC's *Rock Salad* program, I heard something about
British musicians (being more accurate, acoustic instrumentalists) nattering
and grommishing through their union about synthesizer players "taking
away their jobs." I thought this was a put-on, until I saw the latest
issue of *Keyboard*.

It's sad to think that the Luddite spirit is so prevalent--let me see,
now. I'm a calligrapher, and boy, am I mad about all these printing
presses and typewriters taking away my job. No matter how good presses
get, they'll never reproduce the nuances that a Fred Eager, Alfred
Fairbanks, or Raymond de Boll displays in a true work of calligraphic
art. They ought to be limited to things that a scribe can't do, or
maybe books printed by mechanical means ought to be labeled "this
work produced by inferior artificial methods." :-) (except that there's
a large amount of disgust overlaying the humor)

					James Jones