I don't know, I see a lot of difference between developing motor skills, and developing visual skills. With a couple of years of tutoring by an excellent music tutor, and a couple of hours a day practice, people who didn't even know me could reconise the tune I was trying to play, barely. But I don't think any amount of making photos by rules is going to improve you vision one bit, it does not take extreme motor skills to work a camera.
Conclusion: bogus argument. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 12:10 PM Subject: Re: Pish-posh and balderdash > > > Bruce Rubenstein wrote: > > > > I come from a family with several musicians. You don't play classical > > music without solid technique. > > True enough. My daughter started taking violin lessons at the age of 9. > At the time we had hoped that she would study with Mrs. Kim, a Korean > string musician who teaches Suzuki method and has trained some excellent > violinists. Unfortunately, there was a waiting list, so we hired someone > else. After three years, we got to the top of the waiting list. Mrs. Kim > interviewed my daughter and agreed to take her on. But, although my > daughter had progressed through the first five books of Suzuki with the > other teacher, Mrs. Kim insisted that she start over again with Suzuki > book one and lessons in basic technique. She said that my daughter had > developed some minor flaws in her technique that would limit her down > the road. That was six years ago. Today my daughter is an excellent > violinist, who has won numerous honors in solo competitions and is a > member of the Michigan State University orchestra. She still practices > scales and position exercises, and occassionally visits Mrs. Kim for a > critique of her technique. > Paul Stenquist >
