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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000027.txt from 2005/01
From: David de la Nuez <dmd57@-----.edu>
Subj: [DR-L] Re: doublereed Digest 7 Jan 2005 20:15:01 -0000 Issue 405
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:42:06 -0500
I remember stopping by your table at IDRS '97. :-D
Anyhow... I suspect part of the issue is that there must be other sources
of info, not just the ability to use Google. Are there any DR forums out
there? I believe I once suggested on this list creating one, but I never
had the time. Maybe someone else did?
At 03:15 PM 1/7/2005, you wrote:
>Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 07:52:36 -0500
>To: doublereed@-----.org
>From: benthin@-----.net
>Subject: Re: past times of this list
>Message-ID: <41DE8614.2A70EEAE@-----.net>
>
> In the beginnings of the internet, I remember posting to and reading
>"bulletin boards" on Prodigy such as Classical Music or Auto Repair. I
>bought a nice $1000 GG Loree oboe through such an early "list".
>In the past players from major orchestras posted to this list weekly,
>(Alex Klein and David Weiss, ie.) as well as notable technicians like
>the Keymaker from Laubin. I posted the design of MUTS oboe support to
>this list back around 96, and was invited by my first notable customer,
>Bob Hubbard of Westwind Machining to sit in at his booth/table at the 97
>Chicago IDRS convention to show the MUTS. I suspect that the the bloom
>of communication that the internet provides has faded since the
>beginning of this list, and we forget that since then over two 4yr
>generations of high school/college students have passed through.
> I do see far fewer questions from students these days, likely due to
>the ease of Googling the sources of info on most questions even as
>arcane as doublereed ones. I hope it's not due to the elders being too
>busy or distracted to monitor the list today, assuming nothing
>worthwhile is asked.
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