Klarinet Archive - Posting 000253.txt from 2000/03

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: [kl] A thread with 'Kevin Fay' in the subject for a change
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 11:01:39 -0500

<snip complimentary stuff about the GMN site>

Thank you, Kevin.

I think that the videos on the site aren't particularly what I'd want to
put out to teachers or students -- unless they happen to be interested
enough to go there, like anyone else.

It's only spozed to be a sort of attraction for the general public, who
might be interested in clarinets and/or me.

The point I wanted to make about the 'toys' was one you represented very
well yourself (using a completely different technique) in your 'spoof'
recommendations, I thought.

I'm of the view that our job is to try to get the ideas across.
Discussing how we're using words, as we go along, is a useful way to do
this. But there's no implication that our use of any words is the
'right' one, because different words have different halo(e)s of meaning
to different people. I couldn't continue to use 'toys', even after my
redefinition of what it meant to me in "we fall in love with the toys,
you see," because it didn't have that meaning for Walter, for example,
and therefore presumably for others -- especially after his post.

Anyone prepared to follow my subsequent struggle to find another
appropriate way of saying it would have got a much better idea of what I
was on about in the process.

This is perhaps one reason why I disagree that for students and
teachers,

> the format works so much better than the written word for much of
> it...

...which is something else you said about the GMN website.

Tony
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