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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000019.txt from 2004/10
From: Barbara Trautwein <mzeztee@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] beginner bassoon
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:28:37 -0400
Bravo, Ed!
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Lacy, Edwin wrote:
>In the past few minutes, it has become obvious that somewhere, probably
>in America, there is a professor who is teaching a woodwind techniques
>or double reed techniques class, and who has decided to give his/her
>students experience in using the Doublereed list and the IDRS list to
>fish for information. The class must have met early this morning,
>during which the professor gave the students this assignment. I think
>we have had about 6 to 8 questions that appear to have been framed by
>beginners on the double reed instruments.
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>While it obvious that these are excellent resources, when the list is
>inundated in a short period of time with so many questions of an
>elementary nature, no one is likely to be motivated to write at great
>length about such fundamental issues.s
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>Perhaps the professor would have been better advised to instruct the
>students in how to access the archives of the lists, where voluminous
>writing about all these questions can be found.
>
>I hope the professor is also informing the students that even on such
>basic matters as adjusting commercial reeds, use of the hand rest and/or
>neck strap on the bassoon, etc., conflicting advice will be found,
>whether the source is the archives or what might be called the
>collective wisdom of the list. The problem is to resolve these
>conflicting viewpoints. That is in part what a teacher is for.
>
>Ed Lacy
>University of Evansville
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