Music Theory: Case for the Prosecution

> The student who gets all wrapped up in pure tunings will grasp the > vast truth underlying the disorderly history of harmony, and gain the > background wisdom his contemporaries have missed - and will graduate > to find that there are only 400 people in the country he can converse > with, 200 of whom are weirdos.

This kills me. ;)

In context: http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2006/07/music_theory_case_for_the_pros.html

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* David Beardsley
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Hi David,

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, David Beardsley wrote:
>
> > The student who gets all wrapped up in pure tunings
> > will grasp the vast truth underlying the disorderly
> > history of harmony, and gain the background wisdom
> > his contemporaries have missed - and will graduate
> > to find that there are only 400 people in the country
> > he can converse with, 200 of whom are weirdos.
>
>
> This kills me. ;)
>
> In context:
>
http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2006/07/music_theory_case_for_
the_pros.html
>
> --
> * David Beardsley

What a terrible slur! I'm positively outraged.
That *should* read:
> > ... - and will graduate
> > to find that there are only 400 people in the country
> > he can converse with, *390* of whom are weirdos.

Pursuing unusual paths to ridiculous lengths
in search of an artistic goal is something
done by every committed adventurer in the
arts; it also marks them out as very distinctly
abnormal, or, in the vernacular, "weirdos".

The 2.5% who are NOT weirdos are, of course,
those poor lost souls who unfortunately have
lost their way ...

Regards,
Yahya