User talk:Paul Medland

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Welcome again
Hi, Paul, Sorry if it seems that you are being harshly treated here. Kindly come over to Talk:Fingerboard and show me (and the rest of the eyes on that page) that somebody, somewhere, is using your defragmented arrangement to good musical advantage. An article in a magazine, written by some third party without an interest in the endeavour, would be just the ticket. Need something to point to that says, "this thing has been getting noticed."

Best, __Just plain Bill 11:53, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Copy of reply on my talk page
Paul, you are preaching to the choir about the QWERTY keyboard here. I typed Dvorak layout for many years, but it became enough of a pain to re-map the keyboard of any machine I happened to be at, that I now go along with the lamentable QWERTY, because it's what we've got.

I don't have any problem wih the brilliance of your idea, as far as dealing with the silly B string and what it does to patterns shifted crosswise, or fretwise. I mostly play strings tuned in fifths, so I can only imagine what it's like to not be able to move a pattern over. Power to you in that regard.

Where we have a problem, is that you've put up info about your own invention, which is original research, and doesn't belong in the wikipedia. When your fret system becomes more wide-spread, then it will have a place here. It won't take a Clapton to put it here, but there ought to be more people playing it than one virtuoso inventor, or at least one virtuoso with some media attention beyond your own site and a YouTube video. Best regards, __Just plain Bill 01:13, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

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It should be self-evident but petty vandalism of my user page doesn't actually add to your case. Mutt Lunker 13:37, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

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