Re: [Harp-L] Re: amps for beginners?

[Rick Davis <bluesharpamps@xxxxxxxxx>]

Right.  It is also true that no one said a harp amp should be REQUIRED for a
new player, or that the amp should be loud , distorted, or expensive.  I
trust you have as much disdain for these straw men on the other side of the
argument.  That would be laudable.

If, however, your goal was to sidetrack this friendly discussion into an
arcane argument over debate fallacies, you have succeeded.

-Rick

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Garry Hodgson <harp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Rick Davis wrote:
>
>> Garry Hodgson wrote:  "nobody has said they cannot, nor have they
>> mentioned "permission".  nobody said a new player would be ruined by buying
>> an amp, nor did they demand that all blues harp students play only acoustic.
>>  dial down the
>> rhetoric a notch."
>>  Then what is the exact objection to beginners buying an amp?  Perhaps you
>> should dial up the specificity a notch.
>>
>>
> i was referring to your strawman arguments, which were not as helpful
> as your other, concrete suggestions.  perhaps if you had read the rest
> of my post you would have noticed that i was quite specific on why this
> approach did not work well in my case.
>
> in both of your posts you said you respected others' opinions.
> this is laudable.  putting words in their mouths is rather less so.
>
>
>
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