Hils wrote:

On a more philosophical point, the development of computers has
encouraged people to think of morse as a digital mode. I've always
thought of morse more as a kind of music, with different operators
phrasing their morse much as different piano players might phrase a Bach
prelude. A good, experienced "fist" doesn't sound mechanical at all, and
can very quickly adapt to changing conditions or the skills of the
person at the other end, in ways I wonder if computer programmers have
even tried. Computer-sent morse is the equivalent of MIDI. :-)

I learned it wrong when I was a kid. I am totally charmed by its
elegant simplicity and may relearn it some day.

In the meantime I make plenty of music with the BPSK31.