Obviously you don't get the point. Too bad.
> With your kind permission, I would like to summarize this interesting
> discussion.
>
> It seems, the pro-plastic party generally features the following lines of
> thought:
>
> 1. Plastic or gut: doesn't make a difference. The more subtle variety
>
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From: danyel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, October 29, 2005 11:18 am
Subject: [LUTE] Summary: gut vers. plastic strings
> With your kind permission, I would like to summarize this interesting
> discussion.
I understand your sentiments, Danyel. I prefer the soun
At 12:09 PM 10/29/2005, EUGENE BRAIG IV wrote:
>I think the whole of the argument can be distilled to two camps:
>
>1) Prescriptive: "My approach to musical anachronism is truer than your
>approach, so your approach is flawed and/or wrong; you should do what I do
>or your music making will be inf
Eugene C. Braig IV wrote:
> In thinking even more on this prescriptive approaches can be further
> divided into two subsets:
It may be one subset more than you need for the number of rational
exponents of the doctrinaire prescriptive view. Serious players in
particular have better things to
At 03:59 PM 10/31/2005, Howard Posner wrote:
>It may be one subset more than you need for the number of rational
>exponents of the doctrinaire prescriptive view. Serious players in
>particular have better things to do than make rigid, categorical
>pronouncements about such things.
I wholehearted
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: Summary: gut vers. plastic strings
> At 12:09 PM 10/29/2005, EUGENE BRAIG IV wrote:
> >I think the whole of the argument can be distilled to two camps:
> >
> >1) Prescriptive: "My approach
Eugene C. Braig IV wrote:
> I wholeheartedly agree. That was the exact point of my reply.
>
I had no doubts about your perspective on the matter. But the
occasional posting of an unyielding absolutist position on this list
tends to make newcomers wonder what sort of a community they've
stum
Greetings Gary
At 05:39 PM 10/31/2005, gary digman wrote:
>I think your summary contains at least one red herring. Since I am
>the only person who used the word "elitist", I'm assuming "1b" was aimed at
>me.
Not even remotely. I'm sorry if I gave that impression. I was only using
"eli
At 05:46 PM 10/31/2005, Howard Posner wrote:
> Eugene C. Braig IV wrote:
>
> > I wholeheartedly agree. That was the exact point of my reply.
> >
>I had no doubts about your perspective on the matter. But the
>occasional posting of an unyielding absolutist position on this list
>tends to make ne
