Proposal:Instrument Instructor Position Relationship Type Proposal

Status: This page describes an active advanced relationship proposal and is not official.

Proposal number: RFC-273 Champion: BrianFreud Current status: Pre-RFC Initial Discussion

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This relationship type belongs to the Biographical Relationship Class.

Description

This links an artist to another artist who provided them with instruction on how to play one or more instruments.

Link Phrases

Artist provides/provided instrument training to Artist

Artist is/was taught to play an instrument by Artist

Attributes

“start date”

This indicates the date on which instruction first took place.

“end date”

This indicates the date on which instruction last took place.

“instrument”

This indicates the instrument(s) which were taught.

Link Phrases:

• Artist provides/provided {{instrument}} training to Artist
• Artist is/was taught to play {{instrument}} by Artist

Guidelines

• This relationship type may be combined with Teacher Position Relationship Type and/or Vocal Coach Position Relationship Type, if applicable.
• There must have been at least a semi-formal teacher-student relationship present. This relationship type should not be used simply because an artist taught themselves to play an instrument while listening to recordings of another artist, once had a conversation with an artist, played in a band with an artist, etc.
• Both artists must be person artists.

Examples

• John Coltrane provides/provided instrument training to Thelonious Monk
  • Thelonious Monk is/was taught to play an instrument by John Coltrane