wayfarer75
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That's funny-- I also collect fountain pens and was going to use that exact example. Small world!
LOL! Fountain pens are so nice.
I don't accept the proposition that stuff was made better in the old days. I'm old, and I have friends who like to get in their way-back-machine and talk about how good things were back in the day, and that can be everything from kids to cars, and if they played ukuleles they would say that they just don't make them like that anymore, but I don't buy that way of thinking.
Some things were made better, I think. Not machines, necessarily, but there was more of a sense that things need to be durable. Clothes, for example. But I don’t think that applies to everything.
My fountain pen example is of something that was made in a different way that’s not done any more, and to some they are better old. Ukes were made of better materials early on, but I think overall construction is better today. They made them with a particular l sound in mind, not so much sustain, etc. So they’re different. “Better” is strictly one’s opinion.