The sad thing about Conrad's thesis as expressed here, is that while there a few good germs of ideas, such as 'preserving traditions by performance', 'teaching rather than just performing (for money)' and so on, but they are put together and expressed in such a bizarre and irrational way as to sound ridiculous and as expressed even counterproductive. Also, people what have DONE these things for decades, point out the fallacies, they are ignored by Conrad.

Consequentially, many are provoked into rebuttal, as am I when some ignorant clown tries to tell me that Helholtz resonators produce NO overtones which is why they are 'brilliant for scientific research'. Rubbish - they produce overtones at above 10 times the fundamental (so 200-400 Hz fundamental will produce overtones at 2-4 Khz!) - unlike tubes and rods which have ratios of 2x 3x, etc AND every side blown flute and end blown fipple whistle has a Helmholtz resonator at the 'cork end' which if not properly tuned will give the instrument poor performance, especially at higher frequencies!!! The experienced intelligentsia just CAN'T let such foolish ignorance go unanswered!