Re: [tuning] Tanaka

It's a shame that someone is fussing with the Tanaka article. He was on of the earliest Japanese scholars selected by the state to study science in the west in the opening era. I understand that he was an important physics teacher for decades after his return to Japan, and, according to Jo Kondo, his harmonium was still being used for demonstrations to music students in the 1960s. It should be easy enough to find out if the harmonium is still in use or on display somewhere now.

DJW

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Wolf <djwolf@...> wrote:
>
> It's a shame that someone is fussing with the Tanaka article. He was
on
> of the earliest Japanese scholars selected by the state to study
science
> in the west in the opening era. I understand that he was an
important
> physics teacher for decades after his return to Japan, and,
according to
> Jo Kondo, his harmonium was still being used for demonstrations to
music
> students in the 1960s. It should be easy enough to find out if the
> harmonium is still in use or on display somewhere now.
>
> DJW
Maybe there is more than one?
0194 4443215 Enharmonium (Junseicho orugan) Japan, Shizuoka Pref.
Hamamatsu Nippon Gakki 1936, Invented by Shohei Tanaka
Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo JP. http://www.gs.kunitachi.ac.jp/
collectiondb/e_catrn02.html

Clark

> It's a shame that someone is fussing with the Tanaka article.

Agreed. It looks like a snafu, and if Gene can't convince
an admin to undelete it, there's a process in place to get
it undeleted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@...> wrote:
>
> > It's a shame that someone is fussing with the Tanaka article.
>
> Agreed. It looks like a snafu, and if Gene can't convince
> an admin to undelete it, there's a process in place to get
> it undeleted:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review

I did convince an admin to undelete it, and shortly thereafter and
before I got a look another admin deleted it again. Apparently there
wasn't much in the article, and I simply started a new one now.

Why the article was deleted by the speedy deletion process when it had
links from two other articles and a link to the Tunings project page
is an interesting question.