You're getting hysterical, Steve.

From:Steve Shaw- PM
Date: 11 Oct 12 - 07:40 PM

"But advocating that beginners in traditional music will come to no harm if they learn tunes from books and/or set up music stands in sessions is just nonsense. There may well be nothing traditional about sessions, etc., but there is damn sure nothing traditional about people down the centuries playing traditional music from dots. Nothing!"

[And the assertion in that last clause assumes something about traditional musicians that I think you would have a hard time verifying.]

And you just said it AGAIN, right above.

"I am saying that the harm comes when inexperienced players of this music think that it's hunkydory to learn tunes, fast-track, from notation."

How the hell is someone SUPPOSED to read that!???

I am not stupid. And the only agenda I have here is that counseling beginners in music, any kind of music, that learning to read music will do them harm or inhibit their progress in any way sounds like an attempt to sabotage them.

BAD COUNSEL!

Don Firth

P. S. I've said my say. There's no further point in chasing each other around the bush, repeating the same things over and over again.