Well, I don’t see anything wrong with telling them that they are disturbing the session, and to please either listen and behave, or leave. No need to let anybody feel welcome when they aren’t.
Sonja
I guess telling them without hurting/angering them requires skills that only few of us possess, it’s no easy task…
This is so, Azalin. . .I appreciate what skh is saying, but I certainly am not going to be the one to tell this lady. After all, I started with a recorder, I learned 75% of what I know there at session, and the session is ‘advertised’ as open to all levels. I am not going to go anywhere near calling the kettle black.
The good thing about having rank beginners, and the clueless, and the musically inept, is that it trains you to listen to what’s important and ignore superfluous sounds. A bomb could go off and it wouldn’t shake our leaders. . .(and a ‘bomb’ in the form of an air horn DOES go off without warning when the bartenders get a megatip, or the hometeam scores on TV, or such).