Talk:Blind musicians

message: Things to do on the article which I may or may not get to:
More extensive discussion of resources for blind musicians.
More exhaustive list of important blind musical traditions.  I know that blind musicians are common in many African countries (Cape Verde, for example) but I haven't been able to find enough specifics about any of them to make a discussion worthwhile.  I've also been told that some Native American nations had traditions of blind musicians, but I haven't been able to find any info on that.  NoahB 14:00, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [To do] 

message: Thought the other heading was getting a bit unwieldy....
Irpen, I get what you're saying, but from what I've read I'm not convinced that this is the case.  it seems likely to me that the difference is just one of timing -- kobzar seems like it is the older term.  I don't know enough about this to state it definitely, however.  NoahB 1 July 2005 17:31 (UTC)
: Basically most kobzars were bandurists, but not all bandurists are kobzars. A kobzar is an individual with a specific training, repertoire and life stule. A Bandurist is anyone that plays the bandura. Bandurist 22:54, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kobzar vs. Bandurist 

message: I have removed the Kevin Tan Weilian section.  I don't believe this article is a good place to include extensive biographical information about individual blind performers. There is a link to an individual article about him in the List of Blind Musicians section, and it seems to me that that is sufficient.  If there is any information about a distinctive tradition of blind musicians in Singapore, that would be worth including in the article as well.
I have pasted the deleted section below (including the clean-up notice posted by another user.)  I thought there might be info which could be added to Kevin Weilian's own article -- though that article looked pretty thorough on a quick scan through.
NoahB 17:57, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kevin Tan Weilian section 

message: I removed the reference to the phone phreak with perfect pitch.  It's interesting, but it doesn't seem like it belongs here to me.  Lots of people, both sighted and blind, have perfect pitch.  A scientific study that has determined its more likely among blind people is encyclopedic; a single reference to a single blind person with perfect pitch just doesn't seem to me to add anything to the article.  If there's a tradition of blind phone phreaks (as there is of blind piano tuners) that might be worth a reference further down in the article....NoahB 00:14, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phone phreak ref 

message: I'm reminded of Morgan Freeman's character in Unleashed. I wonder if there are any other blind piano tuners in popular culture.
-- Sasuke Sarutobi 13:31, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the tuner in The Piano was blind.  Postdlf (talk) 14:59, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blind piano tuners in popular culture 

message: I found this line in the article. Perfect pitch cannot be learned from software or anywhere else. It is an inborn skill that depends on a form of eidetic memory that most people do not possess. Though it is indeed possible to use ear training software to learn relative pitch, which is quite common among musicians, perfect pitch cannot be learned. If anybody who edits this article could correct this sentence or replace it with another idea that would be great.
: I'll do it -- but you can do this sort of thing yourself.  Wikipedia articles can be edited by anybody: Be Bold. NoahB 19:11, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "People who are not blind, however, can use certain software and activities to improve their ear and even attune it to perfect pitch." 

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message: Shouldn't Bocelli be mentioned in the article some where, since he is one of the most famous blind singers of all time? --Ahmad123987 (talk) 20:00, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Andrea Bocelli 

message: I wanted to add José Feliciano, but, given the format the page is currently in, I couldn't find an appropriate section and feel that adding yet another section exacerbates the problem.  Maybe someone else can find an appropriate section for José Feliciano.  I wonder if the format used for the first versions of this page couldn't support the growth of the page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wantnot (talk • contribs) 09:29, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I made an edit, he's in the article, finally! It is another section, but in a way that brings a bit of order, by breaking more modern performers off from "History."  --  Zanimum (talk) 04:43, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing musicians - Can't find a good place to put them 

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