<p>Just wondering, seems like all they have is engineering stuff.</p>
<p>Sound is engineering! Accoustics and microphones and duplication........musicians and the industry rely on engineering all the time.</p>
<p>Thats how to engineer instruments....not performance and theory. Totally different.</p>
<p>My bad, that school looks retarded. 71% men and all advance math for any major (they also have a tiny selection of majors, most being engineering), no thanks.</p>
<p>Tpeck......your small mind and ignorance are showing.</p>
<p>What exactly do you expect from Cal*tech*?</p>
<p>he thought he heard them say performance on a horn not performance of a horn and go confused. He thinks a conservatory is where folks go to cure illness.</p>
<p>"What exactly do you expect from Caltech?"</p>
<p>To be like MIT.</p>
<p>Then go to MIT, if you can get in. : )</p>
<p>I think we'll certainly do alright over here without your company or your approval.</p>
<p>All the best,
Ben</p>
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<p>But what on earth do you mean by that? MIT's music performance major is not exactly world-class. The last musicians to graduate from here were the band Boston...</p>
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<p>Yeah, but that wasn't even really a band. Boston was really just one guy, D. Thomas Scholz, who is widely regarded to be a genius at sound engineering. He picked up a SB in ME and then a SM (without specification) from MIT, then he created most of those tracks for the Boston debut album using recording equipment that he largely designed and built himself. He then founded a highly successful sound-electronics company that have produced some of the industry's most respected technological innovations, and I believe he picked up over 30 patents for his inventions. </p>
<p>So really Scholz happened to be both a brilliant musician and a brilliant engineer.</p>
<p>I believe I mentioned sound engineering early on in this thread.....seems OP didn't know what that was....she probably doesn't know Boston either!!!</p>
<p>Oh, really? I thought it was two guys, both of whom were MIT grads. Most of my information is filtered through my Boston-loving boyfriend, so it's not terribly surprising that I got it a little garbled. (I did know about the engineering side of Boston... I was amusing myself with my little joke. :))</p>
<p>Boston went to MIT? That's freaking awesome. I've always loved their songs, long though they be, but that some of the band were actually intelligent, that's cool.</p>
<p>Well, look, molliebatmit, I know a bit about Boston too, and I believe the full lineup was Tom Scholz, Brad Delp, Barry Goudreau, Fran Sheehan, and Sib Hashian. Of them, only Scholz appears in the MIT Infinite Connection alumni database (as Donald Thomas Scholz, SB 1969, SM 1970).</p>
<p>As a guitarist I am enormously respectful of that guy... he designed pedals before guitarists were really using pedals. Amazing.</p>