Author: brycon
Date: 2021-08-10 22:10
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I'm sorry, brycon. I let my frustration with the tone of this forum get the better of me.
Thank you but no need to apologize to me! No offense taken!
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It appears that there is just some miscommunication over what works on "the Board." In my view we are looking at something akin to Twitter (as I understand it). You have a limited amount of space for a response (at least if you want anyone to read it). Additionally you usually have pointed questions that beg specifically pointed answers.
Sure. Sometimes someone asks, "My Buffet has the serial number 12345. How old is it???" And a simple informational response makes total sense.
Other times, though, someone asks, "How should I fix my technique?" or "What am I supposed to do about voicing?" or "Why don't my high notes work?" and so on. Perhaps with the last example, an in-person teacher could try out the poster's clarinet, examine his or her embouchure, etc. and then provide a good and simple answer: "You need more mouthpiece in your mouth."
But here, those sorts of informational responses might work and might not. Indeed, they could hurt a poster's clarinet playing, send them down a rabbit hole of bad habits, or even cause physical injury. For me, this "marketplace of ideas" approach is a load of b.s. So when someone asks one of these types of questions and I feel inclined to respond, I'll try to offer some way of thinking about things, a general approach to practicing or performing, that might be of help regardless of what nuts-and-bolts fix they actually require.
So just because the serial number question asks for one type of response doesn't mean the high note question asks for a similar one. Again, it's that old Emerson idea of: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Post Edited (2021-08-11 00:09)
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