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1. Music
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. We did not jump in with both feet when stereophonic sound was first introduced. We were well-pleased with our hi-fi set, and we kept it until the inevitable improvements were developed in stereo sets. We watch the advertising columns and the news columns of the music pages, looking for new gadgets that may make our wonderful hi-fi even better than it is now, but we seek impartial expert advice from store salesmen and knowledgeable friends before we make any purchase. As a result of our care in selecting records and in caring for and trying to improve our phonograph, we can enjoy hours of fine music, according to our taste, in the comfort of home. We have much leisure, but little boring idleness. We can thrill to an exciting evening with Beethoven or a tempestuous afternoon with Louis Armstrong. Music may be as boisterous as a thunderstorm or as soothing as a lullaby. But whatever it is, it is relaxing, for it eases the stress and strain of the everyday world. It is soul-healing therapy. It brings rest to the weary, new inspiration to the downcast, and new hope to the forlorn. A hi-fi tape recorder can give you an opportunity to add some fine items to your library of recordings without getting up from your favorite chair in the living-room. Whenever a radio or television show that promises to be a musical treat is announced, record it. If for any reason the performance does not come up to your expectation, wipe it off the tape, and your tape is ready to use again. Being naturally lazy, we are quite happy to stretch out and listen endlessly to our records. But, while some of us are content to listen passively, others are inspired by the recorded sounds to actively create their own music—to play a musical instrument themselves. If you have any aptitude at all, you will soon be producing satisfactory—if not good—music. Remember, if it satisfies you, it serves its purpose. Many people who have no technical knowledge of music can sit down at the piano and give most creditable performances, playing by ear. Louis Armstrong, probably the greatest trumpet player that ever lived, once told us that he had never learned to read music until he began to play on the Mississippi riverboats. Harry Woods, who wrote the music for hit songs such as "Red, Red Robin," composed at the piano. But he could neither read music nor put his own compositions on paper. He dictated his tunes, so to speak, from the piano. Most of us, of course, require at least some elementary teaching before we can make music. Modern teaching methods, particularly for the piano, cut down learning time. Take a look at the Yellow Pages in your telephone book. You will find several advertisements of fast teaching methods for piano, guitar, accordion, organ, and others. Playing, in time, may lead to composition either for your own entertainment or for professional publication. Song writing is a highly competitive business. It is not an easy one in which to get started, and comparatively few who do try it ever make the grade. Those who do reach the top find it a most lucrative profession. Those who do not, and are not really trying to, have a fine time entertaining themselves and their friends.
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