Klarinet Archive - Posting 000612.txt from 2000/08

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Correcting each other
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:07:00 -0400

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:51:08 -0400, bhausmann1@-----.com said:

> At 11:41 AM 8/21/2000 +0100, Tony Pay wrote:
> >
> > I'm a bit disillusioned that I was able to persist in my recent
> > error about the direction of piano anharmonicity for so long without
> > anyone in this quite sophisticated community correcting me.
>
> I'm sorry about that, Tony. It may simply be the limitations of the
> e-mail medium that, in our efforts to be concise, we sometimes
> overlook the very minor points that would really enlighten. Not to
> mention the fact that we cannot use sound, facial expressions,
> gestures, etc. to make our points clearer. But we should keep trying
> to learn anyway.

No, I'm afraid I can't accept that explanation. That's not why you
didn't correct me.

At that moment, you didn't understand how or why what I said, or what
you said, was faulty. Therefore, no amount of vocal elaboration or
hand-waving would have done any good, because it wasn't a minor point,
but a very major point.

You just weren't in a position at that moment to 'enlighten' me.

But others 'watching' could have been.

What I'm talking about is our being more geared up to question both the
things we say and the things others say.

Tony
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