This bull-roar cannot go unremarked.
It's interesting how people can be two things: helpful and kind, and at the same time ignorant and arrogant.
Professor, how can you possibly know what this persons capabilities are? Have you ever been partly deaf? Is that also a field in which you are an expert? Have you ever performed any scientific research, or empirical research for that matter, that has been published and peer reviewed that might explain your so-called "fact"? Have you ever given this person a lesson and evaluated his ability?
Herb Caen, long dead columnist and cynic in San Francisco once said, "Any clod can have the facts, but having an opinion is an art!" You elevate opinion to a high place indeed.
Most of us would never presume to understand what God does when He makes a human being - listen to Evelyn Glennie, professor, and try to understand that some people are great, despite their disabilities, or perhaps because of them. Listen to the delicacy of her playing, her ability to fill a hall with her pianissimo, her phrasing. Too bloody bad she's just a "technician".
Bo
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A partly deaf person might become a great "technician" on the musical instrument but lacking essential abilities to create real sound, projecting sound, fill a hall even with his pianissimo carrying sound. He as monaural cannot feel the acoustical wideness or tightness of a hall, but he could be great just playing for himself as fun. This is not an opinion, it is a fact, sorry.
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