Klarinet Archive - Posting 000102.txt from 2008/09

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Warm Air / Cold Air
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:43:31 -0400

Keith wrote:
> Yes. The problem with monkey physics is that if anyone knows any real physics, it comes across as if the teacher is talking b/s. It's only any use to a non scientist, and I have problems with people using bad science to support an argument. It discredits the teacher and derides real science.

It only comes across as bullshit if you present it as anything _other_
than monkey physics -- though sadly people do so too often.

I don't particularly want to go head-to-head with you in the scientific
qualifications stakes -- waving certificates at each other isn't a very
nice spectator sport -- but let's say that I don't particularly feel my
profession or area of research is derided by a clarinet teacher telling
their pupil something slapdash and wildly physically inaccurate _if_ it
helps that student achieve better clarinet playing.

After all, that's the goal. And I've met more than a few superb
musicians who have absolutely no clue whatsoever about the real physical
mechanics of what they're doing -- if anything, knowing it would
probably get in their way.

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