mike_p

Andy's post was before I joined this forum, so I hadn't read it before Wayne revived it.
Andy's analogy is both apt and very interesting. All art forms are related to each other as they all spring from the imaginative and seeking human mind.
I also have had a lifetime interest in music. My mother was a voice teacher and choir director, and occasionally practiced the violin when I was young.
I started piano lessons when I was 6, and continued off and on until I was 16 or so. I even made a few bucks playing. It was a great social entre and as a young man, I found that the girls liked piano players. (Whoopee)
I took a year of music theory as a senior in highschool. Later, after 4 years in the Air Force, I took a year of harmony as a college freshman. That was about the extent of my formal music education. So, I've never really considered myself a musician. Mainly just a player for fun and entertainment.
I continue to love music, particularly classical of the baroque era, mainly J. S. Bach. My stereo is often playing in the shop as I work on bonsai. I find that it helps to settle and focus the mind, especially when doing boring and repetitive tasks such as wiring.

ars gratia artis

Mike

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Learning the mechanics of bonsai is a matter of rote. Over and over again the processes are practiced until the hands and eyes know the moves.
Learning the art of bonsai may be more like water wearing away a stone, or climbing a mountain where the peak is always shrouded in fog and just out of reach.
Persist, and someday you may see the peak in sunshine. You may pick up the stone and it's a thing of beauty.

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