I saw the tag, instrument-care and maintenance.
They're not synonym, they have the same description.
What's the difference? Should we make them as synonym tag (one of them) or what?
I agree that on most existing questions here they are used for the same thing and should be merged, but I think the word "maintenance" is a bit too potentially ambiguous. instrument-maintenance would make sense, but maintenance as applied to music on the whole (the topic of this site) could have other meanings.
instrument-care by contrast is completely unambiguous, and if we turn maintenance into a synonym for instrument-care it will autocomplete for askers, so if they meant something different by "maintenance" they can choose something else.
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@seseorang I went ahead and suggested the synonym: instrument-care -> maintenance. I don't know how to change maintenance to instrument-maintenance or I'd've tried to get the ball rolling there, too. – luser droog Jul 21 '14 at 17:51
I think this makes sense - there are a handful of questions on maintenance of amplifiers, but the vast majority of the questions under both tags are on maintenance and care of instruments.
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I think the maintenace tag is better, and use the instrument-care as a synonym. Because I think maintenance fits all instrument. – seseorang Jun 18 '14 at 16:46
I disagree. Some of the first few questions in instrument-care are about how to store a instrument well, which sounds very much like instrument care, but not maintenance.
Yes, there is some overlap, but I think they are subtly different.
I did not look at the questions bearing the respective tags, but the answers above did not much to clarify the definitions. The most important difference for me seems to be:
- Instrument-care is supposed to be done by the player before/after use
- With maintenance I would have associated a professional technician
Any opinions?
