On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 03:46:25 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 6:16:15 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 May 2017 17:59:52 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >Well, opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one. However, there are
>> >people who are qualified to have one. People who cannot sing, or cannot
>> >play an instrument, cannot read music and cannot identify the
>> >instruments being played cannot make a credible judgement about the
>> >relative merits of a piece of music. That would be like someone who
>> >cannot identify the sweet, sour, salty and bitter, or distinguish
>> >between the flesh of a mammal or the flesh of a fish judging a meal.
>>
>> You eat something and you like it or not. You see something and you
>> like it or not. You hear something and you like it or not. Some things
>> are really not that complicated.
>
>Sure. If you're unsophisticated in your tastes. Having knowledge,
>whether it is music or food, increases my enjoyment. Isn't it better
>to marvel over the perfect text painting in Handel's "For Unto Us a
>Child Is Born" rather than to sit there like the dog in the Victrola
>advertising:
>
><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice>

I can enjoy music without knowing exactly who plays which instrument,
that this instrument was first played at he court of Louis XIV and
which Cro Magnon man or woman was the first to turn a stick into a
flute. If I like it, I like it. If you're an expert on these matters,
good for you. Enjoy your sophistication.