Within hours of bringing a Casio keyboard into our house we were discussing real versus unreal piano teachers. Lynda remembered Ms. Vaughn: "She brought depth to every piece, with history, explanations . . .." Her piano teacher has been dead for a quarter-century. We can only wonder what she'd think of our plastic piano.
All day Lynda was at two keyboards--the Casio and the Dell. On the former she was following an online YouTube video by a piano teacher, and on the latter she was tapping out and printing sheet music.
By the end of the day I thought, "Musicians are smarter than painters. They know how to bottle their art--and teaching their art--so it reaches beyond their space and time." No wonder the printmaking world enchants artists who want to do more than satisfy themselves and their patrons. I figure printmakers and musicians are alike, and the press is the printmaker's instrument--like the keyboard.
Printmakers know how to bottle their images, their multimedia work, their words of wisdom and keep it all accessible with spreadsheets and databases, too. It's Elmer Gates' vision for great world teachers. I'm thinking about gathering in a virtual world and inviting people to BYOB.
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