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SOPO is UK law, OP is probably not in the US

I'm sorry that this person is acting this way after you wrote this post. I hope you're feeling alright

I cannot claim to know the actual answer here, but I can definitely see some possible ones. For a start the Pacific Islands just have nowhere near as much productive land as Europe, so it's going to be alot easier for Europeans to gather resources and build relatively large and unified societies that can cooperate on things. They're also much more isolated from other large population groups, being scattered across the world's biggest ocean, unlike Europe which can easily have contact with the rest of Europe, with the Middle East, and with North Africa. As such Europe has far more opportunities for ideas to spread and also a far greater need to compete against its neighbours

The maritime skills of Pacific Islanders were absolutely phenomenal, they were just working with a much tougher situation than Europe if the goal is to build a large industrial society. Europe's own maritime cultures distinguished it from its rivals like the Ottomans, who had a capable navy but nothing like the ability that some European nations at the time had to venture far from shore

Dyads makes sense actually, the closest I've ever gotten to finding a sound I like for it is when I'm playing my guitar that I keep in open C tuning. Vielles and citoles would be a rare sight over my way, but violins take on the exact same role. Thanks for the advice!

I don't think I can offer a solid answer to this I'm afraid, I am terrible at organising people. I would suggest that there are a lot of existing established groups with many different goals though, so it might be worth seeing if there's one you like that has a presence in your area

It seems very silly to claim that strikes don't work, they regularly get shit done. But I did not actually advocate for anything in particular in my comment, I just answered the question above

Nice to meet you too! Writing lyrics is one of the biggest blocks between me and putting together complete songs of my own, which is a little galling because I have been paid many times for non-lyric creative writing. I just need to practice more until I can do it (or find someone who has lyrics but doesn't know what to put under them, I suppose)

I dabble in the rest to pull together recordings of what's in my head

This is exactly how it happened for me, yeah! I had ideas and I wanted to actually hear them, and the rest sprang from there

I'm not a particularly heavy fediverse user, but I am subscribed to !guitars@lemmy.world. No matter how much I enjoy trying out different aspects of musicianship and putting them together, there is no doubt that my first love is guitars

I wonder if a more general community for music creation would be a better approach? Seeing as we're a relatively small number of people here it's maybe more useful to specialise the community less just for the sake of gathering more of us together? I don't know a damn thing about running or promoting communities though

I recorded and released a couple of EPs with a band once, but they were only released physically. I have also recorded a couple of metal versions of tracks from the Outer Wilds soundtrack. They're a bit rough because they were very much the process of me actively learning how to do these things, but I'm still pretty pleased with them

I am trying to record some proper music of my own, but sadly my health nosedived and I've struggled to be productive on much at all. Still, the effort continues! However long it takes me, it will be done one day

Costing relevant people money, basically. Strikes, sabotage, obstructions, that sort of thing

What sort of folk music do you play? I love Scottish and Irish folk and primarily play guitar, but I've never really figured out how to properly incorporate it into that kind of music

So long as you don't mean professional musician, I guess I count. I'm a decent guitarist and a reasonably competent bassist (the skills are transferrable, but they are not the same if you want to do anything interesting on bass) who does a bit of blues, rock, and metal. I've done a little bit of music production, essentially just enough to put together recordings with programmed drums at home and have them not be completely awful. I'm also working, very slowly, on learning piano and would like to learn violin, but life has gotten in the way lately and made that difficult

Settling the tonewood argument once and for all with bonewood