Bob Draper loads the die:

>I like this analogy between music and art.  Let me put another proposition
>to you.  Would like to you touch up the Mono Lisa with brighter colours?
>Perhaps we could make Van Gough's lines a bit smoother.  Or, sharpen up
>a Turner.
>
>Of course such ideas are anathema to most people.  So why do we touch
>up classical music Haydn/Mozart/Bach etc by playing it on modern less
>astringent instruments or with larger ensembles? Why do people tolerate
>this? Isn't this sacrilige?

To offer a complete wimpy viewpoint:  it depends.  You should be judging a
result, not a method a priori.  I can admit that any of these things might
likely produce a bad result, but I can also conceive of them producing a
good one.

Steve Schwartz