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An analogy would be like telling someone to go into the next room and "pick up" a diamond. (That's the singer).

Then you tell the other person to walk a thousand miles and pick up one just like it! (That's the musician, or instrumentalist, if you will.)

It's just not the same thing.


For the most part this can be true, but I know instrumentalists who do exactly that... I hate them - well, not really. I know this one guy - he can pick up any instrument, within a few minutes he's playing a passable tune - give him a week and you'd never know he hasn't spent his entire life perfecting it.

Saw him pick up a flute once. Took him less than a minute to figure out a passable embouchure and the next to run a C scale... I don't think he'd ever picked up a flute before - mongrel... Of course, he has spent his entire life with music (I think he's about 22 or 23) and so has a bit of experience behind him which transfers from instrument to instrument, and grows every time he does it.

AND he's the best conductor I've ever worked for. Serious native talent. On the down side, he hasn't got social skills worth a damn, and very little respect for any authority beside his own, though he has been working on that and it is improving. I suspect he has mild Aspergers.

I will agree that singers are a group apart; they never have to carry their instruments...

Bob, I understand your irritation. I even share it to an extent, but I aim mine towards those ignorant enough to ignore the possibility that developing skills takes work - these people are usually pretty useless at just about everything anyhow.

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