Philosophical thoughts


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Posted by N. Dwyer on December 19, 2001 at 15:35:38:

Recently, a family member's son who had been playing oboe for some time in grade school was told by his new music teacher that he should change to another instrument because he "did not have the proper personality" for the oboe. This caused me to wonder if there is a movement within the music education world to correlate instruments and personalities. Some of us were matched up by physical size, and others by cost or whatever Uncle Herb had played. Has anyone run into any scholarly papers on the subject? I can imagine the incoming flood of jokes regarding trombonists or (fill in the blank), but I'd like to know if this is a serious thing.


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