[LAU] Laptop Battle Registration and Promotion

[david]

Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 07:13 -1000, david wrote:
> 
>> IMO, laptops, computer keyboards, etc, are very thin and unexpressive 
>> replacements for the rich interfaces that we know as real musical 
>> instruments - guitars, violins, horns, etc. Human hands and fingers, 
>> human breath control, have been developed and refined for thousands of 
>> years. Computer user interfaces have a long ways to do to develop that 
>> degree of expressiveness.
> 
> "A great instrument has qualities that the body can learn, and the mind
> cannot"
> 
> 	    -- unknown

As a player of a wide variety of non-computerized instruments, that 
makes perfect sense to me.

-- 
David
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