You know whatâs frustrating?
-Spending hours, hours researching something, finding out that what you thought all a long was wrong and having to make a lot of changes in a very complicated web of links and entities.
-Spending a long time writing replies forum posts and Meeting topics where only 1 or 2 people - if any, reply.
-Then having 100+ comments about people arguing about the choices you made making things so much harder for them. 
I donât know what to do honestly. No solution is favourable to everyone.
But please Please try to understand that this was done for a reason,
Iâll try to explain as simple as possible:
The âdrumsâ instrument, now the âmembranophoneâ, was always meant to be the âmembranophoneâ header definition instrument in the instrument tree.
People had (myself included
) been using it wrongly for *years*
Iâve been looking at it since 2016 wanting to just do something about it already.
Anyway, Iâm genuinely sorry if Iâve made MusicBrainz harder or more frustrating to use for people - however: I saw quite a lot of examples earlier in this tread where people were arguing about âthis is that not thisâ, if you know specifically that something is wrong, fix it!
-Most likely it is drums (drumkit)
â(sure sometimes it just says âdrumsâ but 90% of all general bands will be using this. See the description! Even 1940âs early Jazz with conga and other drums would count as âdrumsetâ * (reference is the excellent âThe Drum bookâ by Geoff Nicholls, if you are interested in the huge development of the drumkit from the early start to current, I canât recommend it enough!))
-If itâs completely impossible to figure out, then it can be drum (generic)
Iâm sorry for the extra work this would create for people but sometimes life gives you bitter pills.
However Iâd like to say this; while MusicBrainz is definitely for users to casually add things and edit, It is also for people dvelveing completely into obscure things, becoming super specific and generally âmega technical geekeryâ both âextremesâ can and will co-exist.
But in order to facilitate both of these, there also needs to be âsuper extreme detailed technical instrument thingsâ as well.
I am not a musicologist, and I have not even started to chip the huge mountain of things about music instruments I donât know.
I might have to remember to stay âgroundedâ and not get overly âgeekyâ but itâs kinda hard, since I have really found my niche here with researching instruments, fixing broken or wrong linkages and descriptions, and making our previously simple âgeneric instrument listâ into something to be proud of, even for super smart instrumentologists and musicologists (and letâs all be honest here, we all have a bit of that in us else we wouldnât be here
)
This whole debacle (and itâs worn me out a bit to be honest) might be considered âteething problemsâ on the road to MusicBrainz World Domination.
Anyway, Iâm going on Vacation now, Please keep things civil and constructive.
If anyone has any good ideas to fix issues, any scripts to help fix things, etc. go ahead and discuss them!
Thank you ~ Cat