Striking just the right note

I enjoyed Randy Lewis’ “Pay for Play: Why Stop at the Fiddle Section?” (April 8). I used to play first violin in the high school orchestra and found it very funny when I first read about the Bonn orchestra episode a few weeks ago.

I told my son then that the way companies are downsizing today, the orchestras will probably start hiring day laborers to play the cymbals and pay them by the hit.

Here I thought I was being “original,” and then we see a hilarious article written by a pro like Lewis.

Bess Mandelberg

Granada Hills