Klarinet Archive - Posting 000208.txt from 2005/07

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Useful?
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:48:08 -0400

Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:

> As a ridiculous example, if I were a new student, and you showed me
> how to finger low E on my Bb, would you recommend that I interrogate
> you as to why and how you are so sure?

We all have finite resources, for sure, so we usually have to pick and
choose carefully the things we question in detail. But that's part of
the joy of it---the best and most important thing in life is to find the
right *questions*... :-)

Of course, one of the interesting things about things like symbols is
that they are there for historical reasons and their prevalence tends to
be down to a great extent to the influence of "authorities". But of
course as situations change so do our conventions---just think of the
difference between what a classical musician looks at on the music-stand
and what an electronic composer looks at on the computer screen of his
sound-editing software. Sooner or later questioning the authority of
the symbol can be useful....

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