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On Learning: Part One
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"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
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You didn't update your non existant account? Shows up ok here.Nanohedron wrote:[
I'm not seeing anything but notices telling me to update my account. Not that I have one.
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Re: On Learning: Part One
It's not you, Nano!Nanohedron wrote:I'm not seeing anything but notices telling me to update my account. Not that I have one.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/3 ... party_pgs/
You can see it because it's yours.Polara Pat wrote:You didn't update your non existant account? Shows up ok here.
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Whoops, sorry guys. Not sure how else to post images. This forum is about as tech as I get.Peter Duggan wrote:It's not you, Nano!Nanohedron wrote:I'm not seeing anything but notices telling me to update my account. Not that I have one.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/3 ... party_pgs/
You can see it because it's yours.Polara Pat wrote:You didn't update your non existant account? Shows up ok here.
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Re: On Learning: Part One
That'll be $400, Pat. I'll take care of it for you.
So ... what was I supposed to have been seeing?
So ... what was I supposed to have been seeing?
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Will you take a third party out of state cheque?Nanohedron wrote:That'll be $400, Pat. I'll take care of it for you.
So ... what was I supposed to have been seeing?
Just a couple shots of our race car being bad-ass
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I'll imagine them both.
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Got somewhere else you can upload images without that restriction?Polara Pat wrote:Whoops, sorry guys. Not sure how else to post images.
If not, you should still be able to get the image URLs and post them as hyperlinks in URL tags instead of visible, hotlinked images in IMG tags.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d166/ ... 4v1pad.jpg
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[Edit: nope, that's not working either... Photobucket = bad!]
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While playing my humble Gen Bb, which I adore, I have come to the stark realization that I am not a master of anything, nor will I become one.
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Hmm. We seem to be disagreeing about the nature of "mastery". When I use the term, I don't mean "perfection" - a standard somewhere beyond virtuousity. That's impossible. What is possible is obtaining a degree of skill such that a panel of peers would conclude that X or Y player had mastered the instrument. That's totally attainable. Such players will go on getting better all their lives, but that doesn't mean that at some point, their peers had not recognized them as being in command of the fundamental skills of whistle playing. There's no such body ruling on whistleship, but that doesn't alter the nature of mastery. Mastery doesn't mean "achieving perfection", it means "attaining an advanced standard".Nanohedron wrote:"Mastery" is just a term that, IMO, properly should be conferred by others, not oneself (which would be hubris). Beyond that, it's just a hypothetical concept for the purposes of this discussion.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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Nor do I.s1m0n wrote:When I use the term, I don't mean "perfection"...
And that's exactly what I meant in the main. I see us as being entirely in agreement, here.s1m0n wrote:What is possible is obtaining a degree of skill such that a panel of peers would conclude that X or Y player had mastered the instrument.
But I still maintain - and you seem to agree in principle - that no matter how good I get, it is for others to say I have any mastery. Personally, I would be too dissatisfied to ever call it that. At most, I might concede that I'm competent, but I'd still rather someone else say that, too. Although I understand that by "mastery" you mean "competency", and I tried to use it along those same lines, it's evident that I didn't entirely succeed because I do consider "mastery" to imply a higher standard, and this probably showed through.
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Interestingly, there were masters in art and music who were ignored or denigrated by their peers and contemporaries who are now acclaimed as masters. But, here again, this is splitting hairs, similar to an ongoing medieval debate on how many angels could rest upon a pinhead.
For practical purposes, in my opinion, mastery of anything rests upon the acclaim of contemporaries and existing masters, follwed by the test of time.
For practical purposes, in my opinion, mastery of anything rests upon the acclaim of contemporaries and existing masters, follwed by the test of time.
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One more try then I promise to get back to the regularly scheduled debate.
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So I sat down for the first time with a tin flute for about an hour and I can play Mary Had a Little Lamb, Twinkle Twinkly Little Star, and London Bridges.
I'm basically ready to do sessions with ITM groups I assume
I'm basically ready to do sessions with ITM groups I assume
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Success...and cool car.Polara Pat wrote:One more try then I promise to get back to the regularly scheduled debate.
Returning to topic...I recall your first whistle was gifted to you with the stipulation that you learn to play "The Wild Rover." Did you accomplish that mission?