> The notion of not knowing why recording sound could > be useful to me is hard to grasp Because that clearly isn't the whole story. Culture hasn't chang

> The notion of not knowing why recording sound could > be useful to me is hard to grasp Because that clearly isn't the whole story. Culture hasn't change as much as you seem to think in the past 150 years. Heck, some institutions, like the Catholic Church, have been trucking along since the Roman Era!