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How to See Gain, Where Others See Loss

Build For Tomorrow

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John Phillip Susa's Fear Number Two

Records did not destroy the development of the local music personality, as john phillip susa predicted. If anything, records accelerated this development by giving aspiring musicians more influences to choose from. Mark cats actually researched this claim and found the exact opposite of what Susa predicted. During the early years of recorded music, the number of music teachers and the number of amateur musicians both went up. Because, of course, people were never inspired by live music. They were inspired by music. And now that they heard recordings of music, well, they just heard more music to be inspired by two and they were probably inspired to learn an instrument so that they too could be recorded.

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