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Re: Good books or articles to read?

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2014-08-18 03:19

>> A wikipedia article states that Mr. Pay is working on a book concerned with the use of "metaphor" in teaching and learning to play the clarinet." Is that not correct? >>

Yeah, it's true...I WAS.

Several publishers presented with drafts then told me that 'musicians just don't read books'.

"But, if you incorporated what you want to say in a tutor that teachers around the world could recommend their pupils to buy, then we'd have sales. Otherwise, it's a no-go."

I wasn't really writing for beginners. So I started writing here.

Now, my experience leads me to suppose that the publishers were right, by and large. I find myself pretty much the only one who wants to point out the rubbishy nature of some of the rubbish that some people write here.

The other experts – like Liquorice, say – just don't want to get involved, it seems.

So _I_ get to be the bad guy – the one who 'takes against' people like Roger Garrett, Ken Shaw...and so on.

So it goes.

Tony

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