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 A Sensitive Question
Author: SecondTry 
Date:   2024-04-13 23:05

I think, without passing judgement, that this forum is far less active that in years gone by.

I wonder why? Are there other avenues for advice that didn't exist in the past when the board was more active? Clearly Youtube has answers that its absence didn't, but it's not a two way conversation like here.

Are there less clarinetists?

Clearly, this board's software (or maybe its version) isn't the latest, I say void of judgement. Mark runs this on a shoe string budget. While bulletin board software like Xenforo may support a greater multimedia experience, I think its license cost, not to mention the conversion of 10s of thousands of posts to it, not to mention the administrative costs to run it would be a Herculean and expensive task. There simply isn't the sponsorship dollars here like on boards covering products and topics with greater market size than clarinets and their gear to cover this cost, and the Phorum software used here more than gets the job done.

Even if the niche of clarinet topics is a small one, the fact is that this forum so incredibly surpasses others on clarineting, where in other topics there are often numerous bulletin boards, like, for example, my other hobby: woodworking.

On a somewhat related topic, it seems that the world of community bands isn't what it was in the 1960s and 1970s. Still more Covid had to have an impact on new students taking up instruments during that period.

Thoughts.
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