Music - Hobbies

Almost everybody likes music—some kind of music: popular songs, opera, symphonic music, folk music, jazz music, calypso songs, choral music, violin, piano, or vocal recitals—and even, perhaps, Rock 'n' Roll. Music can bring you endless pleasure at home through your phonograph, radio, and to a lesser degree, television.

Unlike record collectors who collect oddities indiscriminately just because they are oddities, those who like to listen to music buy only those records they expect to enjoy over and over again. Even when an artist, or a group, is among our favorites, we listen to his latest recording before we buy it to be sure that it will stand frequent repetitions after we get it home.

There is so much price-cutting by record retailers these days that we are reluctant to pay the list price of a new record. Instead, we watch the advertisements in the music sections of the Sunday newspapers. We roam the town, looking in record shop windows for their frequent cut-price sales. This way, we may not get new records on our shelves immediately after they go on sale, but we do get more records for our money.

Similarly, we do not have the most expensive phonograph that has ever been devised, but we have a very good one and we take great pride in it. We bought one of the first hi-fidelity sets as soon as we could afford to after they were put on the market. We swapped it as part payment on a better one when it came along.

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