Unanswered Questions
112 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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New Site Design Launched!
Congratulations! As you can see, the new site design just went live.
Later this week a themed the Twitter account, newsletter template, and chat room will be made for the community based off of this ...
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Music SE is getting a new name -- Music: Practice & Theory
As soon as we announced that Music SE would be graduating, the community mobilized to get the site name changed to better reflect how music, as a discipline, gets explored in Q&A around here. Now, ...
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Improving on counterpoint questions in digest format
We've had a recent influx of very interesting counterpoint-related questions (as well as some excellent answers), but I want to improve on the way they are being asked, so this post is designed to ...
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Please continue to commit to the Music Fans Area 51 proposal
A while ago, we decided we wanted to support the Music Fans proposal on Area 51. The proposal still needs about 50 more people to support it to make it into beta, but it's been growing very slowly for ...
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Separate tags for Sibelius (composer/software)
Having asked a question about Sibelius 7 software recently, I noticed that the Sibelius tag is used for the composer and the software. Would it be useful to have, for example, "Sibelius (composer)" ...
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RIP Dave Smith, inventor of the Prophet 5 synth
Dave Smith (1950-2022) was a musician and engineer who founded Sequential Circuits (a major synth manufacturer) and invented the Prophet 5 synthesizer.
The Prophet 5 was a significant milestone in ...
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Is this question seeking personal advice on topic?
How do I get started again when I've lost heart?
The OP seems to have had a rough time; I can sympathize with that, but "does anybody have any tips on how to move past great loss.... if ...
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Question Cleanup: Making questions findable for others
We've grown a lot in the past 7 years of the site many questions being asked and answered. As of this post over 12,000 questions have been asked. However, as we have grown we have to take care in ...
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Triangle fermata vote buttons
Why did the triangle fermata voting buttons get removed?
Reminded by the comments here Triangle above note, with dot in it
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transcription how-to
I just learned that questions about transcribing music are off topic.
I do agree that if someone has a tune that they're having trouble notating, they shouldn't be able to just come here out of ...
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Are you a college student studying music or a music teacher, and like free food?
If so, I would love to get in touch with you. I'm looking for high school or college students or teachers (or anyone who has connections to a music learning community) who might be interested in ...
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history of strings for musical instruments
Is a question about the specific history of metallic instrument strings appropriate here? I see in the Help Tour that "we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question ...
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Minimal Working Examples (MWEs) for LilyPond Questions
I recently answered Unable to switch text fonts in LilyPond. In the question, the OP provided a link to his/her code, available here. Visiting this link shows the code to be well over 400 lines long. ...
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Comment Building Blocks
These replies are stock for copy/pasting. Please feel free to add and edit comments.
Welcome
Hello and welcome to Music.SE!
You can click [here](http://music.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic)
to ...
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2023 Moderator Election Announcement
SE friends,
It is, I regret to share, time for me to step down as mod. I had hoped to be a mod for longer—and a more active one!—but a recent promotion has severely impacted the time I once spent here ...