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The author comes to the conclusion that parents wishing to provide a strong foundation for their children’s musical ability must give their children formal instruction. This is because a strong foundation in music requires a good musical education. Further, a good musical education often includes formal instruction.

The author claims that formal instruction is always a necessary condition for a strong musical foundation, just because formal instruction is sometimes part of a necessary condition for a strong musical foundation. This fails to consider that it might be possible to provide a good musical education without formal instruction.

The domain of the argument is limited to parents who want to provide their children with a strong musical foundation, so it’s not relevant whether musical education might come from elsewhere—then it wouldn’t be the parents providing it.

This argument is only about parents who want to provide their children with a strong musical foundation. What the children want doesn’t change the steps a parent would need to take to achieve that goal.

The author’s conclusion is that formal instruction is a necessary condition for a strong foundation for musical ability. Whether or not formal instruction is a sufficient condition is irrelevant.

The author concludes that formal instruction is necessary for a strong foundation, because it’s often part of a good musical education, which is necessary for a strong foundation. However, “often” being included doesn’t make formal instruction necessary for a good education.

The author only states that a good musical education is necessary to have a strong musical foundation. Whether or not a strong musical foundation is necessary to be a good musician isn’t relevant to the argument.

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