In article .com,
"Jenn" wrote:

MINe 109 wrote:
You missed the suggestion on another forum that you don't really know
what your instrument sounds like and can rely on audience response to
develop your tone and interpretation.

Bologna.

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Are we to suppose that Horowitz was simply lucky in that the technique
that produced the nuances he liked close up also happened to produce
sounds that the audience liked, though he didn't know what the latter
sounded like?

No luck involved, merely observation and attention combined, of course,
with a formidable talent.

All musicians have to have at least a tacit sense of what is being
projected to the audience.

Which he or she can get from the audience feedback. *He doesn't have to
have any first hand knowlege of what the audience actually hears, only
of what they like.

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End quote.

Complete nonsense, of course. My reply to the other forum is lost in the
ether, but it included the thought that I wouldn't have needed all those
years of study to acquire my performing skills if I'd known this.

Stephen