Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2016-09-29 07:17
Tony Pay wrote:
> Why didn't 'MoonPatrol' investigate the issue further, before
> making his post? Why didn't he listen to the piece, even?
I think he was demonstrating his inexperience with reading a full score. The multiple measures of rest weren't shown in the score because publishers economize by dropping the staves of instruments that don't play through a whole system. Sometimes, at a low enough level of experience with something, you don't know what it is that you need to investigate further.
But to your point here, however careless or misinformed the question was, he only posted once more, and not to argue or reject the answers he got, but to suggest for himself that the missing clarinet staves might have misled him. The rest of thread was the work of others.
Your more general point is very apt - in fact if I could, I would delete any question that begins with "What is the best...?" The question is immediately unanswerable on its face and only invites a series of competing preferences.
Karl
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