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From:  John Link <johnlink@c...>
John Link <johnlink@c...>
Date:  Sun May 6, 2001  5:30 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Re: Trying So Hard and Still Not Good Enough


Judy wrote:

>But there is another component to maturity that is absolutely essential for
>singers--and that is knowing how to care for and protect yourself. You only
>have one instrument--and because that instrument is very delicate, you can't
>practice the way an instrumentalist can, singing full tilt for hours on end.

This wonderful advice applies to instrumentalists as well. A pianist
or a guitarist or a violinist all use themselves as the instrument to
play their external instrument. An instrumentalist that ignores that
fact suffers for it as surely as does a singer!

John Link

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