Opinion re. posts

[Dave Nereson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Teplitski" <koko99@shaw.ca>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 12:52 AM
Subject: Opinion re. posts


> (Imho)  . . . some OT posts are appropriate for this list. Ones related to
> general music instrument technology., such as the recent one requesting
> " string " instr. info. I find it interesting to read a post which is not
> directly related
> to piano, but does interrelate someway to music technology. Trucks and cars are
> very different, but the rules of the road are the same for both.  It's
> interesting to
> see how instruments differ or are the same. Many techs., use violin bridge
> fundamentals
> to compare them to how piano bridges might work. ? ? ?
> Some time ago, there was a question whether guitars, violins were tuned to ET. ?
> ? ?
> I don't know if having a narrow view on technology, [ just piano related ], gives
> us a wide
> enough scope to try and understand what we do. For instance , we need to know
> about
> wood, metals, plastics, glues, etc. etc., and then, we should know something
> about music.!!
> I think we are not specialists in the general sense of the word, but we have a
> general practise.
> 
> Posts which I find very annoying, are ones related to politics, or religion. At
> this very moment,
> it is very difficult to escape  the war in Iraq, and I'm sure we all have our
> opinions.
> This is a very traumatic time, but hopefully will soon pass, and we can then get
> back to some
> form of normalcy.
> 
> Carl/ Winnipeg.
>> 

I agree.  Music-, other instrument-, similar technology-related posts add interest and helpful knowledge, but the politics, rantings, etc. are out of place.  I was looking around for related technical info.  and found a jewelers' and goldsmiths' list.  They had fairly strict rules which one had to agree to in order to subscribe.  One rule was about staying on topic and if O.T. stuff, not to mention obscenity, vulgarity, flaming, ranting & raving found their way into a list member's posts, that person would be removed from the list!
    --David Nereson, RPT, Denver