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From: Richard Stibbons <bonzo@...>
To: disklavier@egroups.com <disklavier@egroups.com>
Date: Friday, December 03, 1999 6:56 AM
Subject: [disklavier] Poll

Todd

The closest answer to your questions is "I'm too shy".

I think you've got the wrong mix of anonymity. The way it's set up, the recipients know who I am but I don't know who they are. That makes me jumpy.

I have loads of marginal material such as transcriptions of ragtime piano rolls, Jelly Roll Morton etc. As the original rolls are very rare here in the UK, most of this comes from modern recuts of old rolls. I'd be happy to share this but the copyright situation is questionable and I'd like to have some idea of how widely it will be spread.

I'm sure you won't do this, but I'd much rather see the group personalised by asking each member to submit a thumbnail sketch of who they are, where they live, what type of instrument they have and, importantly, whether they are professionally involved in the field.

Richard

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From: Jack Schueler

To: disklavier@egroups.com

Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 12:00 PM

Subject: [disklavier] Re: Poll

Hi Todd et al.

I for one requested anonymity in email postings because I hate like hell to be
sucked up into yet another spam list. I don't mind seeing my name displayed
in postings, I just don't want the email "string" listed in any posting on the
Web.
A typical technique for building spam lists is to scour web pages for
"foo@domain_name" strings.

I also am not opposed to anyone asserting their rights to their own work.
I am dismayed to see phrases like "Gestapo" used and I was somewhat
alarmed to see that one of the first sets of files being exchanged was
copyrighted
material. I work in the software industry and I am very sensitive to copyright
infringement. The software I work on has been pirated heavily all over the
world. At the end August this year, our company put an end to futher
development
and distribution of the software (Watcom C/C++ and Fortran 77) since the income
from it can't justify keeping it going.

I don't believe that any musician, writer, whatever should be denied income from
his/her labour. If I might make an analogy. I would not expect to be able to
eat
at a restaurant and walk out without paying just because I figured that it has
been
in business long enough that it doesn't need my money. Imagine if Beethoven
were alive today and he composed the 9th Symphony and immediately it
got posted to the net, everyone started playing it, everyone marvelled how
wonderful it was, yet Beethoven didn't receive any income from it. Perhaps
he'd switch to automotive repair or something more lucrative and the world
would have lost so much.

Almost all of the, what I consider good, jazz material in my possession is
stuff I have payed for and hence cannot post to the web site. I find that most
of the stuff up on the internet is so poor or requires an awful lot of work to
get it to sound right on my older disklavier/TG100 setup. There are original
compositions, a lot of it very "experimental", that I have downloaded. I wonder
if any of this would be of interest to the group?

Jack Schueler








"Todd Muncy" on 12/03/99 08:11:29 AM

Please respond to disklavier@egroups.com

To: disklavier@egroups.com
cc: (bcc: Jack Schueler/SYBASE)
Subject: [disklavier] Re: Poll




It's possible for me to allow all members identities to be viewed on the site by
any other members, but I thought this would be a net negative to membership. If
a lot of people think I should make this change, they should say so in this
forum.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Stibbons
To: disklavier@egroups.com
Date: Friday, December 03, 1999 6:56 AM
Subject: [disklavier] Poll


Todd

The closest answer to your questions is "I'm too shy".

I think you've got the wrong mix of anonymity. The way it's set up, the
recipients know who I am but I don't know who they are. That makes me jumpy.

I have loads of marginal material such as transcriptions of ragtime piano
rolls, Jelly Roll Morton etc. As the original rolls are very rare here in the
UK, most of this comes from modern recuts of old rolls. I'd be happy to share
this but the copyright situation is questionable and I'd like to have some idea
of how widely it will be spread.

I'm sure you won't do this, but I'd much rather see the group personalised
by asking each member to submit a thumbnail sketch of who they are, where they
live, what type of instrument they have and, importantly, whether they are
professionally involved in the field.

Richard


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