Curious about "topics the internet left behind," where there's tons of deep knowledge in old books, but most everything online's shallow & Yahoo Answers-like. Serious piano practice technique is a good example; culinary composition is another.
Why do some topics end up that way?
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Incidentally, on the serious piano practice point, I was pleased to stumble across this web book, which did actually present me with some interesting new ideas: tals-of-piano-practice.readthedocs.io/chapter1/index
e.g. on tremolos:
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I’m starting to see some more in-depth piano practice technique being discussed (and demonstrated) by piano YouTubers like Nahre Sol and Evgeny Genchev.
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Off the cuff, I think old-school gems aren't online because the information is being passed down through apprenticeship, ie books/oral trad. in private study/ conservatory. I spent years self-taught before I met someone who referred me to Jozsef Gat's out-of-print piano tech book
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(Gat taught piano at the Liszt Academy in Budapest.) Basically, great info is still hidden in the minds and studios of the modern-day masters, and the sense of needing to share online doesn't impact them directly, in part b/c they're so busy teaching current students!
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Have you come across Abbey Whiteside’s Indispensibles of Piano Playing and Mastering the Chopin Etudes?
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Both incredible! Great examples of old books being much more useful than online materials.
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On this example, I imagine model complexity of the skill causes a great divergence in approaches to and vocabularies around the topic. Topics where everyone forms their own ad hoc syllabus, not something polished, accessibly structured or easily documentable
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It's interesting to me that you use piano practice as an example. Given the difficulty of describing what to do via print, I've thought of video as a much better medium for exactly this! There are thorough discussions by Graham Fitch and John Mortensen that I've found very useful
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And although her videos are short, I think Nahre Sol does a terrific job of putting a lot of information in a small space, e.g.
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