Talk:Pitching Sacred Harp music

Origin?
On the bottom of the page, it reads: "The history of the abandonment of pitch pipes and tuning forks by Sacred Harp singers is unknown to the editors of this encyclopedia."

What is with the reference to "the editors of this encyclopedia"? Is this copy-and-pasted from elsewhere, phrase included, or was the person who wrote that making broad assumptions about anyone who might choose to edit this page and what they might know about the subject? If they were simply referring to themselves, they ought to write "unknown to this editor", not "the the editors", because someone else may well know what he/she doesn't. If the text is simply copied from somewhere else, that is not too cool, even if it isn't actually under copyright.

And while I'm here, it that "mechanical aids are generally not used", but that "such aids may be more common at smaller, local sings", but at the bottom the quote claims that pitch pipes are "never used". Never means never, so it can't be both..45Colt 04:00, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

New sidebar + Please discuss organization
For reasons I've explained more fully at Talk:Sacred Harp, I've added a sidebar to this page.

There are some big issues about the overall organization of Wikipedia's coverage of this subject matter and how to organize it into various articles. I think it's really important for editors involved in this group of articles to discuss the subject and come to a consensus, because the current state of affairs can be very confusing in some respects. Various people have occasionally brought these problems up on various talk pages, but I'm hoping everyone might congregate at the talk section above and figure out some solutions to disentangling these interrelated topics and organizing them into a sensible group of articles.

LiberalArtist (talk) 02:39, 2 November 2014 (UTC)