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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000030.txt from 2004/10
From: Douglas Huff <DM-Huff@-----.edu>
Subj: [DR-L] I'm guilty... Re: [DR-L] beginner bassoon
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 18:22:48 -0400
I am guilty...
I am the person who required eight doublereed technigue students to
subscribe to the doublereed listserv and post a message.
In the past I have required my students to lurk on the listserv, follow two
threads of their choice and submit a summary of the threads. I have also
given them the option of searching the archives.
This morning, however, I was fortunate enough to have a computer lab
available where I could monitor all of the students, so I thought that
letting them post messages would be a good idea.
In hindsight, I think that Ed is right: most of the questions were too
fundamental, a lot of the requested information could have been accessed
without clogging people's inboxes, and having all the students post at once
was definitely not a good idea.
So, my apologies to the list --- and thank you, Ed, for helping us maintain
a more purposeful listserv.
Doug
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Douglas Huff, DMA
Associate Professor of Music
Western Illinois University
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On 10/4/04 10:18 AM, "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu> 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.
>
> 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
>
> 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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