User talk:Tapredux

Thanks for reading my posts on two-handed tapping music.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of misleading propaganda still floating around on the internet about two-handed tapping and The Stick, its precursors, and its descendents.

While I work for a company that is involved in producing instruments that use this method, my potential lack of impartiality is outweighed by my experience and historical knowledge, as well as my knowledge of using the technique.

It has been my experience that some of the self-proclaimed "experts" on this subject are not good historians. They represent minority, unproven, views of the historical timeline of two-handed tapping, unsubstantiated by any kind of photographic or even written evidence. Their only proof is their opinion.

Understanding that this is not an opinion forum, but an encyclopedia that purports to build a concensus of fact, I pledge that I will not remove legitimate information posted by these parties, but I will certainly exercise my right to remove anything that I know is false or misleading, and I will always provide an explanation.

I've made no edits that are not historically verifiable, and I've made every effort to keep contentious, unproven issues out of the articles on Wikipedia.

Hopefully you'll find my contributions add depth to the subject.

Any comments or questions are welcome.

Happy Tapping, Greg

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