Re: Advocating Research

[Erik Sandberg]

On Sunday 23 January 2005 02.45, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> On Saturday 22 January 2005 03:05 pm, Erik Sandberg wrote:
> > On Friday 21 January 2005 20.57, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> > > Quoted w/o permission:
> > >
> > > [quote][i]Originally posted by donaldsauter[/i]
> > > [br]Jan de Kloe's article "A House Style for Engraving
> > > Guitar Music" in the most recent Soundboard
> > > prompted me to get some more thoughts down on the
> > > subject of guitar fingering notation.
> > > ...
> > >   Richard Long,
> > > editor of the Soundboard, told me the Letters to the
> > > Editor column is "defunct" because of the potentially
> > > large lag between a letter and the article it responded
> > > to.  He suggested I put my thoughts on the web, and I
> > > appended them to my page:
> > >
> > >   http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/gfing.htm
> >
> > Looks interesting at first glance; I added this link to the previous
> > report in case someone will want to implement those rules sometime.
>
> Which rules?  The ones from Sauter come basically from nowhere
> and the ones I listed are tentative and not prioritized.  The
> research *has not* been done.

Got your point; good research should be done before anything is implemented.

Do I interpret your mail correctly if I think that you are willing to do some 
of this research, when it is time? In that case, I'll add a notice about that 
in the bug report/feature request, so we can contact you when this research 
will be needed. Which probably isn't anytime soon.

> The reason that *other* guitar players are dreaming up systems is that
> there really isn't any now.  The 'mid-20th century' system is the
> product of ignorance, nothing more.  

OK, this is useful information.

Thanks!
Erik