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On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:48:32 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> John Ames wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:
> 
>> On 27 Oct 2025 14:26:10 GMT rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>
>>> <snip>
>>
>> I recall my mother, f'rexample, branching out into MIDI arrangement not
>> because she'd had any plans to do so, but because my dad brought home a
>> cast-off Mac from his workplace and we'd coincidentally just bought a
>> digital piano to replace our bulky old upright. Nothing world-changing,
>> but a good example of what people learned by just playing around. It's
>> a shame to see what's become of the industry - for a minute there, we
>> really did get a little taste of what computer-as-assistive-tool-for-
>> the-individual-mind could do for people...
> 
> The Atari ST and a Casio 8-note keyboard got me started in MIDI.


Says something about me that I've never done anything with MIDI or had any 
interest in it. otoh, lemme see, I've got 3 acoustic guitars, one of which 
is a 12 string, 2 electric guitars, a banjo, a silver flute, a couple of 
Irish flutes, a bunch of tin whistles in various keys, several harmonicas 
in different keys, an alto recorder, and an ocarina. Never did figure out 
the ocarina.  Should have went with MIDI; like e-books it takes a lot less 
room.