3 Apr
2007
3 Apr
'07
4:52 p.m.
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