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From: fjm/cja
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 07:36:19 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Re: Clueless at the mic

Crap back. 1st of all your opening statement is impolite. Secondly I
don't think we're talking about the same thing. I've only ever met 1
person in my entire life that was tone deaf. He really couldn't hear
tone differences. There is scientific literature that bears out the
existance of tone deafness as a defect. I don't know the rate of
occurance but I suspect it is rarer than red/green colour blindness.
There are also cases of trained musicians losing the ability to discern
tones due to brain injury from accident or stroke. Your ears don't hear
tones your brain does. I accept your antecdotal accounts of people that you
taught to differentiate tones who were labled tone deaf. The label in
their case was misapplied. I did not apply this label to a group of
people that attend open mics. I described the one and only individual
that I know that suffers from this deficit. To generalise my statement
and use it as a springboard to attack the teaching of music by
insensitive louts is unfair. What we have here are 2 seperate issues.
Seemingly related at first glance but in reality worlds apart. fjm