Focus of MMD
By Ken Vinen
This digest is a most wonderful way to share information for hard to locate items whose makers could never afford to advertise. Sharing technical tips is a great benefit too, especially to those with less experience. It's a wonderful way to benefit from some ones mistakes and let them benefit from yours.
It is really too bad that some days the text grinds on and on venting personal opinions that really have nothing to do with making a mechanical instrument come back to life. Remember, you as the consumer have all the power at your command. That's why everything in this world effectively has a control switch that is in your hands. If you don't like a product -- don't buy it. If you don't like the quality of some new player roll -- don't buy it. If there is certain music you detest -- don't listen to it. If a company fails to live up to your service expectations, don't deal with them.
The real point is the choice is yours and the same right of choice should be afforded to everyone. Nobody has the right to take up the position of dictating what should be accepted. It is the right of the individual to make his or her or selection or choice. That is why we live in a free country. Advertisers pay good money to try to influence our judgment, and it is still our choice to listen and follow or not.
If the editors of this digest were to do anything different at all, I would like to see them keep the submissions more focused on the truly important thing -- that being the rescue, restoration and care of mechanical musical instruments.
Respectfully submitted by
Ken Vinen
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