On Jun 15, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Howard Posner wrote: > ...please don't tell us you're "utterly confused" and > ask very basic questions, then tell us how offended you are when you > get basic answers that don't acknowledge your advanced state of > knowledge. Unless you're more interested in impressing everyone as a > sage than in actually learning something, you're better off with > answers that tell you too much than answers that tell you not > enough to > avoid the danger of making you feel slighted.
Bit harsh there, Howard. Did you think those remarks about arrogance and elitism were directed at you? More likely they were directed at me. To the best of my knowledge, I'm the most recent one to have made negative remarks about our guitarist cousins. At least I made some attempt to answer his question about chord shapes right now in the 2000's, rather than lapsing into yet another of our smart discussions about what harmony *really* meant in the 1500's. David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rastallmusic.com -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
