At 04:39 PM 01/29/2005, Christopher Smith wrote: >Where the difference is, is that computers have not put engravers out >of work (except in the very lowest echelons of publication) to the same >extent that sequencers have cut into musicians' jobs. There is not >enough work to go around to all the displaced musicians, unlike former >hand-copyists and engravers.
Yes, my analogy was not the best. Still, if changing market conditions leave us with a glut of professional musicians, I think it's not necessarily clear that we should artificially restrain those market changes (by banning the Sinfonia, for example) in order to preserve more jobs.
Aaron.
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