> You should educate them so they (and their teachers) > learn to appreciate the beauty of the internet. Why > not put the results of a class project on the WWW? > > And why are guitars still needed? Every computer has > a an excellent audio card (with an inbuilt Yamaha > synthesizer that would have set you back several > $1000 years ago) that can produce excellent guitar > and other sounds and you don't even have to play > yourself anymore, just feed it a MIDI-file. Most > classical works are available for free from the WWW. > > Every child having to learn to play an instrument > (I had to learn to play the flute and the piano) > is a misconception of the previous century. Teach > them to play the computer instead!
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