Hello,
Am 15.09.2006 um 18:32 schrieb Colin Hill:
Guilty as charged.
Sorry if my mail sounded harsh, it was not ment to be so.
For me its fine that the beginners questions are answered all over
again by the more advanced.
As there are lots of beginners (which is great) a lot of the mail
exchange on this list focusses on beginners issues.
When we discuss other more hillarious matters it might be worth
considering that there is quite a large audience of listmembers which
are very importend in the topics of hurdy-gurdy playing and making but
maybe are not that hillarious.
All efforts to make answers more accsessable and ignorable (carefull
threading, bbs) might also be really helpfull to keep the lesser
hillarious members of this community from quitting :-)
Simon, still not wanting to sound harsh
However I do offer a defence.
For someone like me of little experience, simple problems can be huge
stumbling blocks. One problem is that you don't know what the problem
is.
As a beginner, when you find the sound changing you just don't know
about
things like rosin and cotton and, when you do, sure not sure which is
causing it.
Questions like "what do I do if my cat throws up in my Gurdy" would
probably
be written out of panic rather than a browse through the archives
(yes, I
know it's there).
It's knowing what to search for that often confuses.
As we gain experience, these simple questions are replaced by more
serious
ones like "what's the best wood for X" etc.
I do hope we newbies don't bore the more experienced. I hope not
because I'm
sure many would say "I wish this list was around when I was starting".
Especially those who don't live near another player.
The beauty of the list is the swift responses direct to the inbox (yes,
Outlook can separate the emails into their own folder and has a "find"
facility) which greatly reduces the worry and panic rather than have to
plough through various archives on a forum (usually a lot more
difficult to
search).
I have certainly benefited from the answers to questions (not mine)
that
must have been posted dozens of times before.
I think the list is great. I also feel part of the community.
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Wascher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: [HG] RE: bbs frustration
Hello,
Am 14.09.2006 um 18:35 schrieb Daniel Musick:
Seems like everybody who writes here is at least a beginning player.
I know there is a number of professional and semiprofessional players
and makers are inscribed/sometimes inscribed to this list.
Some of the best are among them.
For obvoius reasons they do not to often post to topics which are
beginners issues, specially if it is discussed all over again.
Some high quallity tutorials wait for their recoverage from archive.
kind regards,
Simon Wascher
