The knowledge that no one stands between composer and audience is in itself a great satisfaction. Also, interpreters will have a high standard set before them to emulate. COmposing should not be the rare phenomenon it now is. The musical public, event hose who are not proficient on some instrument, should have the same facilities for composing that everyone now has to write articles or stories. Automatic instruments should help tremendously in this regard.
Many musicians worry about being put out of work by automatic instruments.
They should not. The phonograph and radio, as well as the sound film, have had more effect than automatic instruments ever will have. It is more likely that the automatic instrument will encroach on the phonograph than on the existing orchestra. Just as the ordinary musical instruments are suited to the older music, the new electronic instruments are primarily suited to new music. What the present opponents to new instruments are actually railing against is the use of new instruments to perform old music .