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Offline Bob

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Re: "End of the piano industry" article
Reply #1 on: January 28, 2009, 06:18:03 PM
Interesting article, and very true. I've been watching this happen for a long time time now, so it's no surprise to me. The analogy to the current auto industry bailout is dead on, I think. The same author recently wrote another article about decline in American musical education standards and practices. It's somewhere in their archives but I'm not finding it. Here are some others...

https://mises.org/story/272

https://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=129

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Re: "End of the piano industry" article
Reply #2 on: January 28, 2009, 06:59:46 PM
Sounds like a very liberal view. Hope he getīs run over by a public school march band. 
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