Klarinet Archive - Posting 000968.txt from 1997/09

From: Dee Hays <deerich@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Young People's Area on Sneezy
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:08:37 -0400

Excellent idea. I think how-to articles especially should be simply
written regardless of the audience and a beginner, regardless of age,
will be unfamiliar with technical terms. After all we are clarinet
players (mostly) not clarinet scientists. Although, I personally enjoy
the technical aspects since I am an engineer.

Just as a side note, the military has a very specific definition of
readability for instructional manuals that subcontractors must use when
supplying manuals with equipment. I am not sure what that is anymore as
I haven't worked with this in years and did not have that many when I
did. But it is somewhere down around the junior high level or below.

Mark Charette wrote:

> I've been asked by a few "young" people (9-16 years old
> or so) to start an area on sneezy.mika.com where they could
> find information written in a manner a bit easier to digest
> than what we normally write on Klarinet or what I've reprinted
> on Sneezy. A young lady in England has written one short article
> that I'm editing a bit, telling others her age how to tune a
> clarinet, how to sit, and how to put the mouthpiece in your
> mouth. She's done an excellent job, and I'll have it up shortly.
> She had written to me saying that the articles were too technical,
> and she was wondering what some of the words meant. I told her if
> she looked them up & wrote me an article, I'd publish it.
>
> If any of the teachers on the Klarinet list have students who
> would like seeing any of their research published on the Web
> (or possibly you could use this as an inducement to get your
> students to do a bit of research), please drop me a line or have
> your students e-mail me directly.
>
> I'd really like to have a section on sneezy for the "younger"
> player, and use that to encourage them in their studies and
> practice.
> --
> Mark Charette "How can you be in two places at once
> charette@-----.com when you're not anywhere at all?"
> http://sneezy.mika.com/clarinet - Firesign Theater