estebanana -> RE: flamenco body styles and bracing-where to start (Jun. 29 2011 17:37:10)
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Oh gee sorry if I neglected to take some point into account, but when it comes to making nuanced points I usually feel like my ideas are the ones getting ignored. I read it all, but that does not mean I have to address every detail. I fully understand the difference between literally saying "A guitar is an air pump" and taking that at face value. I get that that is not what you're saying. But what you're actually doing is using the concept and words 'guitar is an air pump' and making them into a euphemism for something else. As a euphemism what does it really mean? Is it possible to drop the euphemistic and anecdotal jargon and make the language more precise? That's all I'm getting at, paring back the language to say is that really what it does? I'm sorry but I'm not willing to accept a term just because it's 'tradition' or everyone uses it if it seems to be inaccurate. That not being intransigent or un cooperative, that's just critical thinking. And I'm not saying this out of aggressiveness, I'm just sticking to my points and also making some references to string articles, and I fully admit I read Somogyi's writings and have learned from them. But there's my deal, there's heck of a lot of garbage language and ideas about guitar making out there and I reserve the right to think critically about them and cut through bullshiet to what I think is salient. It basically means I kick about 80% of it out of my way- and I don't know any good guitar makers, writers, photographers, painters, film makers, sculptors, auto mechanics etc. who don't do the same. It's because as a you grow you learn to edit faster and you learn quicker which things are important and what is just fodder to cast off. I would expect in any field it's pretty much the same. Only I have a particular fault, and that is my fascination with precise language and games you can play with it, which seems to drive others up the wall. So where some see layers of nuance others just see stuff they have to push out of the way to go forward. [:D] And I'm hardly writing this on the verge of tears or while throwing a tantrum, I'm just expressing my bad self. See Andy I'm not being a *diiick, I just like writing.
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