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Heheh. I was just looking at a harmonica thread on Mudcat a minute ago and saw this:

You have to reassemble the harmonica after the cleaning.. or it simply won't play well, at all.

Steve, I would have cut your second sentence into three sentences, and insert a comma before the first "but". But then German is my first language, and we Germans like neat structuring, and my knowledge of what is allowed in English is poor. There seems to be more allowances than in Germa...

The worst case I ever saw, both in terms of taking up space and of musical considerations, was a bloke who would turn up with a sousaphone and an E flat bass. I stopped going to that one.

Hey, I spotted that, Simon! :lol: There are sensible rules regarding consistent use of commas but there are other situations in which commas may be used at the discretion of the writer (would anyone care to argue that I should have inserted a comma after "use of commas" there?), but the us...

The bottom line is that you exercise good taste, I reckon. I wouldn't worry, for example, about being seen to show off just because you can play more than one axe. I'm not an expert when it comes to stringy things, but is an octave mandolin an octave mandola?? Ron Kavana plays cracking melody in ses...

Above my head all that. I want to press buttons and I want things to work.

Well, he is saying "learn to play." He isn't saying "to get Irish music under your belt you need a metronome." I am not able to quote my source for this, so maybe I shouldn't say it, but I have it on good authority that he doesn't give a fig for metronomes these days.

Odd. I didn't have to log in or anything. I got some mysterious prompt about mime or something, which I sort of ignored. Vista/IE7.

And I do think that the decline in standards has a lot to do with Americans using extra commas all over the place, all the time. :D We Yanks, literate folk as we are, find, most times, that commas, carefully considered and placed, do, almost without fail, make sentences, in casual, as well as acade...

Me for instance.

The goalposts have shifted so much in recent years in terms of what criteria we use to measure academic achievement that it's difficult to say whether there has been a general upping of standards (a brilliantly vague expression in itself), though I don't share Simon's optimism. Through the 80s and e...

I'll affect to agree with you, in effect.

Gosh, here I go again in serial breach of my self-imposed embargo. Yes, you were little_chup, and the only reason you think you can go on denying it is that you know that all the posts you posted under that name have now been removed together with the identity. If you want to persist in this big fib...

Steve, I did not mean to offend. But there was a bit derision from the same people on the board whenever certain topics came up. It certainly had the appearance of an old boys network at times. I'm glad to know it was not. Absolutely no offence. I know how these things can appear. I know it can loo...

Violinists generally use pythagorean tuning for playing melody. They may use just intonation for finding the lower note of a doublestop or various notes other than the melody in an ensemble (i.e., a string quartet). Violinists very rarely play ET. About the only exception is, for instance, in a pia...