[TPIN] Taps

[James Klages]

Fantasy on "God save the Queen." This is a piece of music played on cornet.
Is it *kosher* to mention it on TPIN?
Jim :)


On 6/1/06, Scott Carson <carsond at ohio.edu> wrote:
>
> > On 1 Jun 2006, at 12:51, Joel Eymard wrote:
> >
> >> TPIN means "Trumpet Players' International Network".
> >>
> >> So this is an INTERNATIONAL list. According to TPIN info page:
> >> "The topics of discussions are quite varied, including such topics
> >> as pedagogy, equipment (of course), performance practice,
> >> recordings, improvisation, famous and not-so-famous performers,
> >> literature and others. Instruments and accessories have been
> >> bought and sold on the network and many collegial friendships have
> >> been formed."
> >>
> >> I left Rec.music.makers.trumpet because I was upset by discussions
> >> about religion. I would not like to find here something similar.
> >> So please let us talk only about trumpet (or cornet, flugel,
> >> picc...), bearing in mind that TPIN members live in any country.
> >
> > With all due respect, the allegedly "offensive post" was not a
> > "discussion about religion", it was merely a post in which the
> > author of the post expressed a wish that had religious and, some
> > would say, patriotic, sentiments.
> >
> > While I agree that TPIN is, first and foremost, a forum for the
> > discussion of the trumpet and its repertoire, I think we must also
> > be adults about the fact that there are other people out there in
> > the world--especially in the "international" world that is being so
> > handily bandied about--whose views and attitudes are different from
> > our own, and they are free to hold and to express those views
> > whether or not their views make us happy, just so long as they
> > don't use this forum as an instrument for the promotion of those
> > views. As the info page states, "many collegial friendships have
> > been formed". It will not be possible to form anything like a
> > collegial friendship if people are not permitted to get to know a
> > little bit about the personalities of the other posters, that is,
> > if folks are not even permitted so much as to mention what their
> > personal beliefs happen to be.
> >
> > It is a delicious irony that the same folks who find it offensive
> > that someone would mention his religious belief and patriotism--in
> > passing, mind you, and not at all as part of some sort of
> > jingoistic reproach to the rest of us, such as the one we were
> > treated to earlier today from the UK--are so willing to enforce
> > their own peculiar subjective beliefs on everyone else, for no
> > other reason than to maintain their own personal comfort level.
> >
> > To those folks who are offended and find it uncomfortable to be in
> > the company of those whose beliefs are different from their own, I
> > would make two suggestions: first, try to read just those parts of
> > the post that are about the trumpet and its repertoire--presumably
> > posts in which there is no such content will not be permitted. If
> > you cannot do that, then try to be mature if you happen to
> > accidentally read something that you don't personally agree with.
> > Second, try to remember that not everyone will find your beliefs
> > and attitudes all that congenial either, but we tolerate you having
> > them and expressing them anyway.
> >
> > Scott Carson
> > http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~carsond
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-- 
Dr. James L. Klages
Professor of Trumpet
School of Music
University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, OK 73034