Or so says this article. Thought I'd toss it out there.
https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/w...moR08AAg4TWgb8
Or so says this article. Thought I'd toss it out there.
https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/w...moR08AAg4TWgb8
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
Still waiting for Grandchildren to give Mandolins to
(So that they can be smarter)
Now it's just a matter of teaching the culture that intelligence, aesthetics, humanities . . . matters.
My education is in the sciences, and I worked for a number of years in manufacturing. I agree 100%.
When I was in grad school (biology) my advisor told me that I needed to stay focused and there was no room or need for me to be taking darkroom photography or other "artistic" courses. That was the beginning of the end of my desire to move into scientific academia.
They aren't that far off! Both have their roots in math, and I know a pretty large amount of musician friends that have started coding over the years.
Kids/people need them both. Art and Science, Music and Math. Holistic thinking for well rounded humans.
I write code and play music (I'm sure there are plenty of others). I can loose myself in pursuit of either one.
The two are similar in many ways: patterns, structure, organization, creativity, communication. Not much demand for improvisation in coding though
I do wish I had started music earlier. I figured I could never understand it. When I wrote my first lines of working code, I was hooked.
I'm from the other end of the spectrum. As a senior (67 years old, a senior what? Think Walter and Jeff Dunham. By the way tomorrow is National Grumpy Old Gray Hair Man Day. But I digress). I have been told that playing music keeps the neurons in my brain connected and functioning. Maybe even creating new brain function. Different mandolins stimulate different neurons and therefore I have more than one. Perhaps someone in academia could start a study to show how providing me with more instruments (payed for through this academic endeavor) would thus prove the point that mandolin playing maintains superior senior brain function. A worthy cause if ever there was one! And if not, I get to keep the mandolins. Sounds good to my senior brain!
Ratliff R5 2007, Capek A5 2003, Washburn M5S-SB Jethro Burns 1982, Mid-Mo M-2, Epiphone MM 30 Bk mandolins, Harmony Batwing 1970's, George Bauer bowlback early 1900's Philadelphia.
"Don't cloud the issue with facts!" Groucho Marx
2012 Weber Bitterroot F5.
Me too
My software team may be an anomaly, but 60% of us play an instrument.
The referenced MIT study may be legit, but the linked article reads like an opinion piece.
> Furthermore, the basic coding skills taught in K-12 bears no resemblance to how professional programmers produce code.
The coding apps my kids use teach conditionals and loops which *does* resemble my work.
They all play instruments too because it’s important to us. If it makes them smarter, that’s a nice bonus.
“The musical group also showed stronger connections from the auditory cortices to other brain areas … “
Does this article mean that music learning will help develop BOTH left and right sides of a child's brain .. simultaneously?
After ten years of working with my hands as a carpenter I went back to school to become a land surveyor, primarily taking engineering (i.e. left brain) type classes. The general attitude in that culture was that the arts majors (right brain) do not really contribute very much value to society - certainly not like engineering does. All forms of art can express feelings and emotions that simple words cannot and our world can certainly use the opportunity for one to be exposed to other cultures that the arts afford.
i think there's been discussion in the cafe (and other places) about the place of arts in society as a whole, especially linked to COVID-19 and how that's affected public performances and people's leisure time, but I wonder if the "who's more important to society" left brain/right brain argument is a straw man kind of thing. Why is it being framed as either/or? Or that can be an argument for another string!
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
The Results and Discussion sections of the study speak to this (it reported volumetric structural changes in multiple areas of the brain, including bilateral hemispheres).
The Right/Left lateralization conception is a rudimentary model that has evolved disproportionally in popular culture. More recent models involve bilateral and multi-regional plasticity, such as reported in this study.
Still at the heart of this remains the question: innate disposition vs practice (nature/nurture) as mentioned in the report several times. My particular interest, as this has been broached many times over the years here, is the dialectic around innate disposition for it's the arts and humanities who've had the most to say about it.
"You are going to be condemned to live out the consequences of your taste" T.M.
Last edited by catmandu2; Feb-04-2021 at 5:30pm.
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