the best forum of classical guitar in the world
but who knows really jean françois delcamp ??
you can watch this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSJb1d8QtDY
only one people ?
oh no !
I know many people like this one
and I have this question : Is jean françois delcamp an idiot ??
who can give me an anwser ??
jpw
I beg your pardon for my poor english
I'm french, it was a cold day in southern burgundy to day
my french site on classical guitare in begining is
http://123guitare.com
I'm an old beginner (sixty)
you can find a poor video of me on you tube at 123guitare
i'ts my first message on this forum
...
I was playing a wedding and needed to play some religious song--asked
if anyone had an arrangement. The mods deleted my message.
At some other point, I mentioned something or other about my business
(guitar playing, that is), and it was deleted. Something about self-
promotion not being allowed.
Don't think I'll be back.
Since your very first post here accuses another guitarist of being an
idiot, let me be the first to say "Bienvenue!" You're going to fit
right in here.
Nice YouTube piece.
Not only are many of us familiar with Delcamp forum, but many of us
are also aware of the "heavy-handed" moderating. I've never been a
member there myself. I hang out here, and at the CG forum at
Acousticguitar.com.
yes I like it too
> I was playing a wedding and needed to play some religious song--asked
> if anyone had an arrangement. The mods deleted my message.
ok but if everybody have the same "way"
it's ok
> At some other point, I mentioned something or other about my business
> (guitar playing, that is), and it was deleted. Something about self-
> promotion not being allowed.
oh yé
one of french luthier : michel donaday was banned
for speaking of his job
joël laplane no
no problem I like the both
and if I have to buy a guitar
these of donnadey are too expensive form me
but......................
excuse me my english is very vey poor ....
jpw
Played a little slow IMHO, but keep at it.
>
> only one people ?
>
> oh no !
>
> I know many people like this one
>
> and I have this question : Is jean françois delcamp an idiot ??
>
> who can give me an anwser ??
>
Who cares, life's too short.
Fuck 'em.
Heads up they're arses, and all that.
Don't wear a tux, they give you acne.
--
Jez, MBA., Country Dancing and Advanced Astrology, UBS.
'Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.'-Zappa
> every body knows delcamp.net
The moderators are intermediate students with very fragile egos who
don't know anything much trying to help other intermediate students who
know even less. Ask yourself what kind of person would want to be a
moderator. Censorship leads to mediocrity, and it becomes inevitable
that the blind lead the blind. That's the way it is, and that's the way
it will always be. Forget it, your time is better spent practicing.
Mediocrity is too high a price to pay for civility and politeness,
especially when so much of it comes without any sincerity at all. I
haven't been kicked out that I know of, yet, I'm just not visiting,
reading, or posting there any more. I probably will be booted now. I'm
in good company. :-) daveA
--
email: darn...@cox.net (put "poisonal" anywhere in subject)
DGT: The very best technical exercises for all guitarists:
http://www.openguitar.com/dynamic.html. Original easy solos at:
http://www.openguitar.com. :::=={_o) David Raleigh Arnold
Andresito
I have been censored without motive, then banished by the
administrator when I had try to explain the situation to the other
members. So I understand pretty well your feelings....
Cecile, ex-Delcamp's member.
He sounds more like a guitar nazi than an idiot, if you ask me.
I find it funny as shit that these two popular forums are polar
opposites of each other. Wish I knew what this means. Delcamp.net is the
old world and RMCG is the brave new world. Medieval vs modern. Order vs
chaos. Choose your poison, baby! :-)
david
Glad I don't have to make the choice - he said as he skirted the question...
One of our medieval loving, absolutist-in-residence here should check
out that forum to see how things git done old-school. Hee-hee.
david
Good point. Delcamp is not an idiot, just a socialist.
This is the Wild West; that's France.
>I do personnaly know Jean-François, he is the finest man you could
>meet. The idea of his forum is that people share their knowledge, and
>help each other (is it a nazi idea ? you should take care of the words
>you are using !!!!)
>The forum, due to french laws, have rules. Subscribing to the forum
>you accept the rules. What I see is that some people don't accept
>rules. and then complain.
hello valery !
what rules I don't accept ?
please tell me
and françois holay, and cecile, and so many other people
the only people I know that not respect rules is jean françois delcamp
Unexpected, is'nt it ?
>In a country (even in US) if you don't respect laws you go to jail
>(even in US you could be legally killed...
I receive something like this from a "lawyer", a friend of jean françois
delcamp
I beg your pardon for my poor english
now in french :
oui tu as raison, val le forum est un bel endroit
était, car pour moi m'être fait virer 2 fois sans
avertissement je ne supporte plus
si tu trouves pourquoi j'ai été viré après plus de 1200 messages
n'hésite pas à me le faire savoir.
c'est le pourquoi de ma question sur ce forum.
merci
jpw
ps : personnellement je te remercie de m'avoir fait découvrir et aprécier le
luth
jamais je n'aurais eu l'idée de m'y intéresser si je ne t'avais pas croisé
sur ce
forum.....
Guitar Nazi is a reference to an infamous bit on a popular US TV show.
I've read the forum, and found it to be redundant and pedestrian. To
each his own. Several people here have mentioned being kicked out for
trivial reasons. For instance Tony Morris for posting a link to
Youtube.
Soup Nazi:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KpjCn_2H6kE&feature=related
> I do personnaly know Jean-François, he is the finest man you could meet.
> The idea of his forum is that people share their knowledge, and help
> each other (is it a nazi idea ? you should take care of the words you
> are using !!!!)
> The forum, due to french laws, have rules. Subscribing to the forum you
> accept the rules. What I see is that some people don't accept rules. and
> then complain.
The members continue to follow the rules because they have no choice if
they wish to remain members. It's not a democracy, so of course the
members all agree with whatever you say. If the moderators, or one
moderator, does not always enforce the rules fairly, the experience
becomes unpleasant. I refuse to make that my problem. That does not
mean that I have anything against M. Delcamp. It was not I who insulted
him. My way or the highway? I choose the highway.
It is a fact that he wants his forum to be amateurs only, and to be free
of professionalism. The clear implication is that if one posts there, he
is saying that he is not a professional. I'm outta there. Do not his
policies make mediocrity inevitable? His problem, and yours, not mine.
And the hostility in your message, directed at me personally by name,
seems to suggest a very fragile ego indeed. There is a medieval saying:
"Every man eats a peck of xxxx in his lifetime." Chow down. There's a
fly on mine. ;-) daveA
>I do personnaly know Jean-François, he is the finest man you could
>meet. The idea of his forum is that people share their knowledge, and
>help each other
That is as phony as a 3 franc bill. I have been banned from that forum
for trying to share my knowledge of guitar matters. Frederic Zigante,
probably one of the most important editors of guitar music active
today, was banned for telling the members of his new edition of the
Villa-Lobos guitar works. That was considered as advertisement and
against the rules, regardless of the fact that thousands of guitarists
all over the world were waiting breathlessly for that edition to come
out.
Yes, they have rules, but the rules are dumb and have nothing to do
with French law. They have to do with only one thing: one man's
twisted notion of himself as an arbiter of guitar issues. The end
result of his stupid arrogant policies is that membership is reduced
to the lowest common denominator, and the discussion level is
pitifully pedestrian infantilism.
Matanya Ophee
Editions Orphe'e, Inc.,
1240 Clubview Blvd. N.
Columbus, OH 43235-1226
614-846-9517
fax: 614-846-9794
http://www.editionsorphee.com
http://matanya.livejournal.com
Matanya I'm shocked someone with your expertize has been kicked off
any forum, expecially a guitar forum. I think we were 1 for 1, but now
you've slipped ahead of me. I'll do my best to fix this in the near
future.
MT
I dunno, I showed up and looked around and... didn't have anything to
say, perhaps I'll get thrown out of there for not saying anything, which
i understand is possible as well.
;)
--
Carlos Barrientos
"mailto:ca...@sprintmail.com"
Phone: (512) 218 - 8322
>
>Matanya I'm shocked someone with your expertize has been kicked off
>any forum, expecially a guitar forum. I think we were 1 for 1, but now
>you've slipped ahead of me. I'll do my best to fix this in the near
>future.
Then you have to sign up with that other idiot James Whalley or
however he spells his name, and get thrown out of the Yahoo group.
Matanya Ophee
Editions Orphe'e, Inc.,
1240 Clubview Blvd. N.
Columbus, OH 43235-1226
614-846-9517
The Yahoo CG discussion group is moderated and stays on topic. (No
need searching RMCG - I was suspended twice from the Yahoo group but
I'm back on and staying on topic). To say that moderated discussion
groups are not professional is to be self-serving.
True that some may consider moderated groups less "exciting" but they
are professional. There may not be the volume of posts but that is a
good thing. It's amazing how so many Google/Usenet groups have been
hijacked by extremely partisan political discussions lately.
Andrew
Ed,
the very point is that they consistently kick out the professionals.
Therefore, the discussion tends to be amateurish in the common sense,
not the etymologically French sense, of the world.
That is why even this ridiculous forum is better than the insipid mess
that e-borneo was, where home-hackers commiserated in their lack of
ambition and Aryeh presided over it all with pure persistence and
nastiness! At least here, everyone can be freely nasty to each other.
What's self-serving is the moderator's pretensions to an understanding
of the topic. In both the Delcamp and the Yahoo groups, I failed to
detect even a minuscule indication that these guys had any idea what
this is all about.
> I dunno, I showed up and looked around and... didn't have anything to say,
> perhaps I'll get thrown out of there for not saying anything, which i
> understand is possible as well.
on the french forum you must write something one time a month :
il you are on forum from 3 months and you have posted only 2 message
you are out
the rules seems a littles complicated (for me)
if you are only visitor what you can see and nothing is not really
different
if you are looking for a sheet, you must register
and so you can look at what scores there are from lever 1 to level for
but you cannot download nothing
il you want to download you must write two messages and ask
to be aproved, you have to wait (from 2 hours to 2 days)
and after you can down load scores
you avec scores, and now you want to ear MP3 ?
mp3 level 1 are on french forum it's ok
but mp3 level two are on Italian forum
so you must registre on Italian forum
write two messages
ask to be approved and so y'ou can download mp3
level 2
mp3 level tree ??
it's the same but on english forum
mp3 level 4 on spanish forum
mp3 level 5 ?
stop ! to can look at the scores of level 5 and more you must write 20
messages
and ask to be aproved
mp3 level 5 are ??
I don't remember
but I'm a poor beginner.
it's funny !
isn't it ??
jpw
J'ai cessé de sauter par des cercles quand j'étais un garçon âgé de sept
ans. Je l'ai trouvé indigne alors, et plus tellement maintenant à
cinquante quatre. Vous comprenez ? Je vous en prie, excuse, svp, mon
français.
I stopped jumping through hoops when I was a seven year old boy. I found
it undignified then, and more so now at fifty four. You understand? I
beg you, please excuse my french.
> It's amazing how so many Google/Usenet groups have been
> hijacked by extremely partisan political discussions lately.
You always are in the thick of these with your own perspective, Ed. Are you
complaining?
John
Doesn't read like a complaint to me. I reread and rewrote it several
times so it was as neutral as I could make it. I have curtailed my OT
posting. Just my personal decision.
I'm sorry but i got to answer to this one Val.
In many countries using someone's else identity is a federal offense.
Sadly enoug this is not something that is watched in the virtual
worlds of forums. I know it remains to prove that Mr.Delcamp is
sometimes using is members identity to post cancel my accounts threads
in their places but i'm one to say it out loud that he's done to me.
Some hints are there to see and there's no ''fumée sans feu'' if you
get what i mean. Delcamp forums are the only ones i know of with a
sub-forum dedicated to members who want to cancel their accounts and
even more unfamiliar around internet forums members do it publicly.
Now if that ain't enough i wouldn't be surprise to see timecode of (so
call) post for cancelling an account and see Mr.Delcamp himself
answering within a minute almost all the time.
I know it aint a pretty subject to discuss and it's pretty sad but
personnaly it's the first time i've been ban from a forum and as i had
about 1500 post and around 60 joint files and also havent posted
anything that was worthy of getting this treatment...why would i want
to leave? You said it yourself :''..best forums..'' I just think
that you are being caugth of guard not knowing how your admin behaves
sometimes or is it often? Now, he's done it and if i were you i would
stand for your members but i wouldn't take part upon J-F not knowing
about is behavior.!
Sincerely yours!
Eric
C'est vrai. Et comique aussi, n'est-ce-pas? MO a certainement ses avis
et j'ai souvent trouvé eux pour être irritant mais bien recherché et
pensé dehors. Au cours des années, MO et moi ont parfois été sur le
point des coups, mais cela a formé beaucoup de respect pour lui parce
que parce que j'ai été concerné pour tout ce que je peut sur la guitare
et gagner pas simplement un argument. L'expérience n'a pas été la même
pour d'autres…
> Quand à la politesse de M. DRA, elle montre bien le personnage.
> Si ces forums sont si infantiles, pourquoi tirer à boulets rouges
> dessus ? Là encore je reprend à mon compte la citation d'égo infantile
> pour ceux qui se livrent à de telles bassesses....
> Désolé d'écrire en Français, mais mon anglais n'est pas suffisant pour
> bien exprimer ma pensée.
> Pour 123 : j'ai vu un message où tu disais vouloir quitter le forum
> (en réponse à Mangore ou Bidouille ????) La règle de JFD est d'accéder
> sans discuter aux demandes de résiliation. Ce qu'il a fait.
> Rien de plus à dire ici, je préfère les forums modérés à ceux où l'on
> insulte gratuitement. Et le niveau de discussion sur la guitare n'est
> pas très élevé ici.
> Val ;-)
Désolé d'écrire en Français, aussi parce que je ne le parle pas, comme
jai voulu... ;)
Dans c'est endroit, ici a RMCG, on peut etre insulte gratuitement tout
le temps mais il y a des gens noble, très intelligent et souvent
illuminant dans ce qu'on peut apprendre. Ma plainte récente est celle
ces derniers temps, la politique et la religion semblent être l'intérêt
principal. Tellement de sorte que j'aie signalé un article sur Scarlatti
et l'aie signalé outre de la matière ! AG a corrigé mon en-tête et a
probablement compris mon cynisme. Dieu le bénisse!
Bienvenue!
>Pour 123 : j'ai vu un message où tu disais vouloir quitter le forum
>(en réponse à Mangore ou Bidouille ????) La règle de JFD est d'accéder
>sans discuter aux demandes de résiliation. Ce qu'il a fait.
c'est totalement faux et tu le sais bien,
c'est une phrase coupée et isolée du contexte
c'est justement pour retenir misisol
j'avais d'ailleurs posté précedement un message d'appaisement
qui a été censuré par jean françois delcamp
mais jhe suis sur que tu sais tout celà
et plus encore
pour en revenir à ma question : quels griefs jf delcamp pouvait avoir contre
moi
tu n'as donc pas de réponse à me donner
sauf un mensonge ??
si tu as la moindre parcelle d'honneteté
tu iras vérifier le message, et tu reviendras me présenter tes excuses
mais as tu seulement une once d'honneteté ??
>Rien de plus à dire ici, je préfère les forums modérés à ceux où l'on
>insulte gratuitement.
désolé je n'ai pas insulté jean françois delcamp
jean françois delcamp est une insulte au monde de la guitare
ça oui !
donnadey a été viré comme un malpropre
françois holay a été poussé par jean françois delcamp
ne me dit pas que tu ignorais que jean françois delcamp avait prémodéré
françois holay sans raison
peut être jean françois delcamp est malade ?
ça peut être aussi une explication
qu'en penses tu ??
>Et le niveau de discussion sur la guitare n'est
>pas très élevé ici.
beurk !
jpw
I signed up and hung around Delcamp for a while, but I got bored and
haven't been back in months.
The best forum I participate in is Nikonians.org. Over 120,000
enthusiastic owners of Nikon camera gear. Participants range from the
greenest newbie to nationally known pros and authors. It is rigorously
moderated, but not boring. That's due to a variety of interesting, but
polite participants, and the large volume of useful information
exchanged.
Photography is an interesting discipline. It requires a sizable
component of scientific/engineering/craftsmanship technique, as well
as an artistic sensibility. Nikonians is largely dedicated to the non-
artistic part in discussions, though you see some really nice photos.
You see some fairly ordinary ones too.
I suspect there are a lot more enthusiastic Nikon owners, more or less
competent in their technique, than there are dedicated CG players in
the US. Is photography easier than CG? It probably takes less practice
time to get decent photos from today's extremely complex high end
cameras than it does to be able to play a Sor study acceptably. But as
they say, at the highest level, it's all equally hard.
Our local plumber is a better photographer than I, though he may know
less about the technical side. He has the eye and soul of an artist.
RNJ
>lut...@gmail.com wrote:
>> C'est amusant que M. Ophée se fasse jeter de tous les forums où il
>> s'inscrit... La faute aux forums bien sur...
>
>C'est vrai. Et comique aussi, n'est-ce-pas?
Ce n'est pas vrai. Il y a plusieres forums ou je suis inscrite et ou
les gens me felicite pour la richesse que je suis capable a ajouter a
leur vie musicale.
Matanya Ophee
Editions Orphe'e, Inc.,
1240 Clubview Blvd. N.
Columbus, OH 43235-1226
614-846-9517
Pardon, je m'excuse... QUELQUES forums ou tu est inscrite etc.
Qu'est-ce que ti fais ici?
Il faut que tu travaille sur ma piece!
Hahahaha
;)
>Qu'est-ce que ti fais ici?
Just shoveling shit against the tide...
>
>Il faut que tu travaille sur ma piece!
Damn right. I am just getting over the stuff that accumulated here
while I was away, and will start on your Periwinkles tomorrow. I
promise.
No fighting about lenses? Leicas?
Steve
> No fighting about lenses? Leicas?
I still have the M3 I learned on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leica_M3
Great camera for learning the chemical side when you work at a photo
lab like I did. Then I went digital and worked for a printer software
company. I remember lots of the chemical old school poo pooing the
digital folks. Don't they still do that? I think the analog sound
folks are still in denial about what digital sound did to their world.
I think your in denial.
MT
L'arrivée inopinée d'une discussion portant sur un autre groupe de guitare
classique n'a certainement pas sa place ici! Heureusement pour vous, ici
tout (absolument tout) et tous trouvent eventuellement leur place. Telles
sont les inevitables largesses de la non modérations ! Rmcg a souvent fait
par le passé l'objet de remarques désobligeantes et a souvent, et le sera
probablement encore, cité en exemple à ne pas suivre par des forums de
guitare « modérés» dont les membres fières s'enorgueillissent d'être les
plus exemplaires du monde cybernétique. Mais voici que tôt ou tard les
modérateurs (élus ou fondateurs) de ces groupes font main basse et expulsent
à qui mieux-mieux leurs valeureux contributeurs. (Ha, cette inadmissible
faute d'exprimer ses propres opinions et de dire ce qu'on pense.) Bienvenue
donc, aux mal-aimés qui viennent ici régler, grâce à la liberté d'expression
caractéristique de notre groupe en constante évolution, leurs petits
problèmes d'expulsions. J'espère, qu'à travers ces règlements de comptes
(lesquels tendent à limiter sérieusement le champ de vision), qu'ils
prendront le temps de découvrir et d'apprécier la sagesse, la connaissance
et la largesse d'esprit des membres d'ici. Tenez vous le pour dit, être
ouvert ne signifie pas qu'on se laisse marcher sur les pieds. A bon
entendeur Salut!
Alain
UR2, Moon Dude, UR2.
Et alors, quelquefois il y a des gens qui faisent le menage de parler en
francais. Je m'excuse. Bonjour, Alain.
>C'est amusant que M. Ophée se fasse jeter de tous les forums où il
>s'inscrit... La faute aux forums bien sur...
Pas de tout amusant et surtout bien triste pour les forums qui manque
maintenant le benefice de ma saggesse et de ma connaissance de la
guitare et son histoire. Et quant a moi, je suis tres heaureux de
n'est pas perdre mon temps precieux avec des imbeciles.
>Rien de plus à dire ici, je préfère les forums modérés à ceux où l'on
>insulte gratuitement. Et le niveau de discussion sur la guitare n'est
>pas très élevé ici.
En autres mots, la porte est la---------------> fous le con...
Matanya Ophee
Editions Orphe'e, Inc.,
1240 Clubview Blvd. N.
Columbus, OH 43235-1226
614-846-9517
You can say that again!
Andres
He he, Carlos this gives me an opportunity to continue my ... welcome note
... I forget to tell our new comers that in order to survive here ... well
... they better learn to speak and write English! I cannot believe I am
saying that! (Having been raised in Québec! from 10 years old onward)
As we all know, if you haven't start learning a second language by the age
of [7,8?] chances are that you will be confused for the rest of your life in
your attempts at communicating in that second language! Eh wait a minute! I
started at 12! (I'm lost!)
The other thing I wanted these guys to be aware of is that this is not a
dating news group. The constant bickering about finger motion, hand
position, the what kind of string are you wearing on your guitar the wououou
wour growling about Ana's dress code and the attribution of a flattering
title like your "gloriousness" and sadly much more topics, is not going to
help increasing the percentage of contributors from the opposite sex. To the
contrary, this attitude has already decreased our feminine representatives
to the point of practical nil. that we are now plagued with a women minority
situation (a truly rare thing in our modern world!). We surely know how to
bring a discussion to a tavernesque hight!
Alain
I simply cannot translate that into plain english ... English of mine is not
good enough.
Alain
hahahaha
--
"Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it
themselves; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being
persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to
others that are within his sphere of action; and therefore, in many
cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for
his vanity among the other comforts of life." Benjamin Franklin.
(1706-1790). His Autobiography.
> On Mar 21, 8:35 am, David Raleigh Arnold <darno...@cox.net> wrote:
> <snip>
>> It is a fact that he wants his forum to be amateurs only, and to be
>> free of professionalism. The clear implication is that if one posts
>> there, he is saying that he is not a professional.
> The Yahoo CG discussion group is moderated and stays on topic. (No need
> searching RMCG - I was suspended twice from the Yahoo group but I'm back
> on and staying on topic). To say that moderated discussion groups are
> not professional is to be self-serving.
I never said anything of that sort. I said that M. Delcamp does not want
professionals in his forum. I said that the heavy handed moderation in
M. Delcamp's forum tends to a mediocre forum. Two separate statements.
It is true that all censorship promotes mediocrity, but as you imply
that's a matter of degree and balance. The exclusion of professionals--
not so much. daveA
--
email: darn...@cox.net (put "poisonal" anywhere in subject)
DGT: The very best technical exercises for all guitarists:
http://www.openguitar.com/dynamic.html. Original easy solos at:
http://www.openguitar.com. :::=={_o) David Raleigh Arnold
He might be a socialist, I don't know the dude. However, it's true that
us people that claim to believe in private property and should uphold
the ideals of the concept sometimes have a hard time with others doing
as they see fit with their own stuff. I believe this is HIS little
creation? Humans iz funny.
david
>
>He might be a socialist, I don't know the dude. However, it's true that
>us people that claim to believe in private property and should uphold
>the ideals of the concept sometimes have a hard time with others doing
>as they see fit with their own stuff. I believe this is HIS little
>creation?
Indeed it is, and he is welcome to it. At the same time, there is no
avoiding the impression is of a guy who thinks he owns culture just
because he has the keys to the library. He makes his choices, I make
mine.
The dude sounds a little kooky and maybe wants to have things done his
way to a fault. I support his right to this. Besides, he's French,
waddaya expect?
On the bright side, we're lucky to have this brief moment in time where
we are allowed to make our choices in who we listen to and how we spend
our time. Most other times, we'd be dead meat...
david
Back in the seventies, I used to love the French films as did most guys
into foreign films. Later would come the Swedish, and the German films
but it was the French that were first. Now days when I think foreign, it
tends to be Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. :-)
>
> Delcamp seems heavy-handed on copyright questions. I would not like my music to
> be stolen either, of course. Composers and arrangers often don't make much money
> to begin with, even when they're paid for every copy of their scores.
>
> In Delcamp's defense, he arranges or typesets (well, in Finale) an enormous
> amount of public domain sheet music, available free to members of his forums who
> have posted some number of messages. His PDF editions include the complete lute
> music of JS Bach, complete works of Tarrega, and a thousand or so other pieces
> for guitar or arranged for guitar. He was also the first to publicize and
> provide streamlined access to the vast free public domain PDF collections of
> guitar music of the Danish and Swedish national libraries.
>
> That most of the posts on his forums are of the low-level "what strings are
> best/should I buy cedar or spruce/who's your favorite classical guitarist"
> variety is a function of the membership, not the moderator. The other web forums
> -- Acoustic Guitar, Netherlands, GSI, the old e-Borneo -- are similar in
> substance and seem a generation younger, in outlook and experience, than the
> discussion here. I'm guessing that's because usenet is an older protocol than
> web forums. C'est la vie.
>
Thanks for the overview on the site. It was interesting as I know little
about Delcamp even though I did register sometime ago to try to contact
a composer of a piece. As it goes, my log-on name and password is long
forgotten.
Who knows what rmcg will be in the coming years, it could go either way.
The old dudes will be gone, but it will be in good hands if tended by
chaps such as yourself. Me, I plan on not living that long or be totally
out of my mind and besides myself in a few years. :-)
david
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In addition to being free the CG sheet music on the Delcamp site is
graded from easy to difficult. You can also get playing advice for
interpretation, etc. This is invaluable to beginners trying to
increase their repertoire without going from Giuliani's Allegro
straight to a Bach lute suite.
Ed S.
> In article <47e56499$0$17362$4c36...@roadrunner.com>,
> dsi1 <ds...@spamworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Besides, he's French, waddaya expect?
>
> I've always liked France and the French a great deal. But national
> personalities have quirks just as individual ones do, and the French
> have a strain of pettiness to the point of nuisance. It's much nicer
> than my (American) country's penchant for violence though.
>
> Delcamp seems heavy-handed on copyright questions. I would not like my
> music to be stolen either, of course. Composers and arrangers often
> don't make much money to begin with, even when they're paid for every
> copy of their scores.
>
> In Delcamp's defense, he arranges or typesets (well, in Finale) an
> enormous amount of public domain sheet music, available free to members
> of his forums who have posted some number of messages.
Why doesn't he allow access to all comers? Because he's on an ego trip,
that's why. Don't say for one second that the access is free. "Free to
members who" isn't free. I have a certain contempt for those misers who
hoard public domain music. It's not supposed to belong to them. He is
overdue for a change of policy and a change of heart, IMO. Again, this
is not a personal attack, I just think his policy is shortsighted, and
that it doesn't benefit him either any more.
If it has a substantial amount of new material, that's another thing
entirely. daveA
The process seems a bit quirky. They have different status levels. You
have to post a certain number of times, then apply and be accepted
before you can look at the music. If they don't like your posts they
kick you out. And if you don't post at all they kick you out.
The censorship accusations are fair. Delcamp does not permit the rough
and tumble mud wrestling that some of the more distinguished rmcg
regulars engage in. And I don't think they let you cuss people out.
But the charge that Delcampers are ignorant is not accurate. They have
some pro players, teachers, and luthiers. The Delcamp moderator Val,
who responded to this thread, is a competent lutenist and has made
many Youtube vids that are very good.
The Delcamp forum definitely lacks the entertainment value of rmcg. I
pop in here and see Lutemann is challenging David's teaching
credentials while Tashi is humiliating Lutemann for his crummy guitar
and bad playing. And Dicerous is taking potshots from the sidelines --
all in the same thread. It's a barnyard version of "Our Town." As Will
always says, this is my favorite comic strip.
Ashby, I'm glad you recognize the rmcg for what it is. Personally, I
do my best to provide my fair share of amusement, the really
entertaining part is watching people like Larry Deack and his speices,
take it so seriously.
MT
Both digital sound and digital photography started off poorly. The
presence of clock jitter in the early CD players led to clearly
audible and nasty sounding distortion. Once they cleaned up the clocks
and got over the idea of "brick wall" reconstruction filters, digital
sound became quite good. It's much easier to obtain good digital sound
these days than it is analog, though both methods can produce
excellent results.
Digital photography had its teething problems as well. Only a few
years ago Nikon was getting $3K for a 4-megapixel camera that had poor
dynamic range and wasn't very fast. Lenses designed for film didn't
handle the flare from the reflective anti-aliasing filter in front of
the sensor. Ofter you could detect a digital photo from the reduced
contrast due to the flare. Just the ticket though, for a
photojournalist on a tight deadline. All you needed was a laptop and a
modem and you could send photos from anywhere in the world.
Nowadays, $5K gets you a full-frame Nikon D3 with 12 megapixels, very
low noise and "film speeds" up to ISO 25,600!! Photos at speeds up to
ISO 1600 are, to my eye, better than 35mm film. Or $8K gets a Canon
1Ds Mark III with 21 megapixels, and the image quality of medium
format in a slightly oversize 35mm body. Digital post-processing runs
rings around the potential of the wet darkroom in the race to get
nearer to what you visualized when you snapped the shutter.
Tipping their toe into the high-end digital world, Leica have stumbled
pretty badly. But the rangefinder design type is so good for its field
that they shouldn't be counted out. I've seen a few great National
Geographic articles shot with just one Leica and one lens.
RNJ
I t seems that Delcamp and this forum are extremes. . I have always
felt much more comfortable posting on Delcamp where there is more of
an ethos of civility ; There are great threads here ...eg the recent
Scarlatti one. And some fine, helpful and knowledgeable folks here .
But in general I feel sfer 'lurking' On Delcamp too - there are very
knowledgeable people , and some fine players. Its sometimes
encouraging hearing the less fine players too...The reality is that
for every profession there are thousands of amateurs, so some
discussions there are at a basic level. I am sure a lot of relative
beginners , through exposure to more experienced players do realise
they need to get professional tuition,or at least seriously consider
what changes to make , and learn to work at pieces more within their
abilies rather thn trying to play asturias from tab after 3 months. I
really dont think they 'consistently kick out professionals' - but
then it seems its happened a couple of times.
Maybe its just got too big for its own good .I dont care for the very
regulated nature there , and feel concern for what Warp and 123guitar
say about their experiences, so I feel less comfortable posting
there. I do like a lot of the people there so I probably will
(hopefully I wont be kicked out for writing this ;-)
I keep re-reading this post. First of all, are you sure this wasn't
one of those "posting under the influence" posts?? : )
As far as women posting here...
I think we know that women are still under represented when it comes
to CG and maybe even more so at the professional level. That has been
discussed here before.
I think more women post at delcamp. There are a few who are
professionals, many who are amateurs at all levels, some very
knowledgeable. I'm sort of in between the two worlds yet. I still
have one year of music school but have been teaching beginners for
alittle over a year. I find I learn alot from both forums.
If I could venture a guess as to why more women don't post here, I
think it might have more to do with the flame wars that involve
personal attack rather than the guy talk about women as your post
suggests. Most women aren't socialized to communicate in this way. I
didn't grow up with brothers but I have raised three sons--I have come
to understand their rough and tumble, insult each other way of
interacting--but all the same, I don't jump in and join them in it.
I'm not suggesting that anybody changes anything--I'm just trying to
shed some light on a recurring issue.
I try to keep up with things on both forums and post when I feel like
I have something to say. Comparing these two forums is sort of like
comparing apples and oranges.
Robin
Robin
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Nice post, Robing. hehe....That's what it should be
re-named....rec.music.classical.guitar.flame.war or rmcgfw
funny, when I look at that...I see fugawe
Don't know if he's an idiot, but the moderation is tediously heavy-
handed on delcamp.net and there seems to be a worship-cult of certain
posters on the site - a cult I found difficult to subscribe to as they
seemed like competant, but hardly brilliant - players. I did post on
there a few times, but I got bored with the worship cult and don't go
back there much.
Just to give an idea of my small experience on Delcamp.net
I've been bannished 4 times (as I was coming in by the window ...)
because I just tried to defend Michel Donadey who is an experienced
guitarmaker, to have said to some people that their recordings were
not good and to have written to one of the moderators that a lot of
uncultured people were speaking about things they don't know ...
Mediocrity and ignorance are constant factor on this website and they
just reflect the spirit of Mister Delcamp ... And I was also surprised
to read some things as "My first string broke, what can I do ?"
"Mr Laplane is an efficient guitarmaker : on his student ghuitars ((in
fact simple Alhambraz guitars with his own label ...)) he spend a lot
of time to thickhen the soundboard by the interior of the guitar
((!!!!!!!!!!))" ...
No idea about which in french is called "connerie sans fin" ....
I just tried to bring a 35 years experience, a knowledge of the
repertoire and of guitar building and the desire to share a lot of
documents (which I did directly with some members) ; Delcamp just
tried to use my documents, my fac similes and my knowledge of the
baroque guitar ...
And as I just read that Mr Ophee and Fabio Zanon had been bannished
from this forum, I really consider now that JFD is also wearing a
"connerie sans fin" ... Mediocrity, mediocrity and mediocrity are the
pillars of his action.