Similarly, there might be student activities in printing, engraving, and photostatic shops. It is amazing how few musicians know these processes, and it is more amazing how little regard these shops show for the progress and development of our art. It is a pleasure to state that one has begun to use progressively more musicians in broadcasting and recording activities. The sound man of the future will be a perfect musician with a physiomechanical education. Much can a music student learn practically in such employment, but if he were acquainted with the theory, his musical taste, his ear, his sense of form, and his knowledge of the score would deliver us musicians from the painful torture we have to suffer otherwise.
Music teachers can do much to help here.
First of all, it seems that parents who are in the position to support their children through school should advise them to accept only such jobs which develop their knowledge. Music teachers could use their authority to influence parents in this direction. They could do more. Nobody would regret this. On the contrary, some obvious advantages might very soon arise.