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user-inactivated  ·  4216 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pearls Before Breakfast

Read this before, but I had forgotten --

    One biographically intriguing fact about Bell is that he got his first music lessons when he was a 4-year-old in Bloomington, Ind. His parents, both psychologists, decided formal training might be a good idea after they saw that their son had strung rubber bands across his dresser drawers and was replicating classical tunes by ear, moving drawers in and out to vary the pitch.

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And I'm surprised this hasn't kicked off another one of hubski's discussions about the word 'art', and how difficult it is to quantify, understand, identify or even talk about. Just one of those funny things.