by juan vasquez (1500-60). played on a mandolin ... but i hope it's
acceptable as i treat the instrument as a plectrum lute:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TWRghdXyBKc
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been la-la-la-la-ling it in mandolin land these days - hope you won't
mind the following.
there's a video on youtube in which a minister in gov. palin's church
blesses her with protection against witchcraft - absolutely beggars
belief ... prompted me to write the following - using
why go to strangers? ...
everything you need to know is located here:
http://www.mikeouds.com/messageboard/
oudists call the plectrum a risha - put that in the site's search engine.
raptor feathers are preferred to the domestic variety (tougher) but the best,
imho, comes from horn.-! you can
lute pickers:-! joseph baldassare wrote a two part article in lute news
(april/july - 2004) called playing the lute in medieval europe - filled with
information and iconography.
- bill
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=billkilpatrick
--- On Sat, 28/6/08, bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED
just received a reply from the legal and copyright department of
SCHOTT MUSIC GmbH that states the music in some tempus est iocundum
videos on youtube - mine included - was composed by carl orff and is
copyright protected.
how they came to this conclusion eludes me. -!i do not read music -
here's mine:
http://earlymusicmandolin.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2167739%3AVideo%3A22
.. where's yours?
- bill
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Subject: [LUTE] tempus est iocundum - original melody
here's mine:
http://earlymusicmandolin.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2167739%3AVideo%3
A22
. where's
Subject: [LUTE] Tempus est iocundum - original melody
Thanks, Bill. That's very jolly, and much appreciated.
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Sent: 24 June 2008 16:04
To: lute list
Subject: [LUTE] tempus est iocundum - original melody
screw 'em ... haven't heard from SCHOTT or youtube with an explanation and i
don't expect i will.-! i dislike the idea of repetitive covers in any case.
not everyone agrees, but to me - this is early folk music and i qualify! i'm
working on a variation of the melody - a process i'm sure my
in relation to a possible copyright infringement on tempus est iocundum
performances - past and future - is anyone in a position to compare the orff
composition with any other treatment of the original manuscript?-! ... are
there neumes in the collection that relate specifically to this song?
greetings -
i recorded a video on youtube of my performance of tempus est iocundum from
the 13th
cent. carmina burana collection of songs.-! as i understand it, all songs in the
collection are anonymous - some of which were used by carl orff for his
orchestration.-!
the video has been
http://www.hopkinsonsmith.com/
--- vance wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about a link?
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To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 4:12 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Hopkinson Smith on silence and lute
playing
will there be two of you, swopping instruments or are
there four of you?
shame about the costume - what's that wire running up
your arm for?!?
- bill
--- Ed Durbrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any recommendations for Xmas music for violin/ viola
da gamba and Ren
lute/B. guit? Gig coming up
as one not-much-enamored with the technique of sound,
i appreciated your playing in every case ... but of
the three, i liked the sound quality of the 3rd piece
(the bourree) best.
garage band on my mac has a facility for bagpipe ...
the mind boggles - if ever there was instrument less
suited for
is that you in the mrs. twiggy-winkle outfit? ... do
you - you know - want to talk about it? ...
--- LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Way off topic, but some people know what I've been
up to last weekend and
have been nagging me for pictures. Understandably,
once you see've seen
them.
if, on that great day of reckoning and final
judgement, god turns out to be arboreal in nature, i,
for one, am in a lot of trouble. driving a tractor
has been a learning experience ... the brunt of which,
alas, has been borne by the lower branches of our
bruised and addled olive trees.
dryads
--- Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a professional tree-torturer on this list.
I'm sure he will appear
soon.
RT
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every now and then you see an oud up for auction on
ebay with holes in the back which indicate that it had
been screwed to the wall of some resturant with a
middle-eastern theme - (gasp) - what a horrible thing
to do to an instrument.
i know people sometimes hang their guitars on the wall
with
yes ...
arthur - if you do go or are in the loop for any
publications relating to the findings of the
conference, please let us know - should be
interesting.
how about vihuelas are everywhere for a conference
button?
- bill
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This may be of interest to
.. of a sort - como poden - from the cantigas di
santa maria:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AfykqGFrYc
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Check out the US trade commission website:
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It's got most info you need, although digging
--- Robert Clair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are weirdnesses - bagpipes are free (or double
really? so far, the pipes i've been getting from
bulgaria are delivered here in europe w/o duty but
anything from the US (including xmas presents from my
dear old mum') are absolutely hammered with
what's it say on the packet of cheese spread? ...
--- LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Familiar with Dowland's My thoughts are wing'd with
hopes, my hopes with
love?
This is what's printed on the package of Japanese
rice crackers in front of
me (spelling and interpunction
here in italy too - i was once startled (frankly) to
see an illustrated t-shirt on very young girl - 10 or
12 years old maybe - that had the coquettish image of
a female dog, tail up, wiggling her rear-end around
while disappearing under the right arm and the image
of an aroused male dog,
, at 6:33 PM, bill kilpatrick wrote:
if kinship is acknowledged between a vihuela and
a
charango - at what point in history did one
become
the other? ... and why?
Bill, as long as we're distinguishing instruments,
clearly in an
effort to eschew obfuscation :-), what about the
tiple? I
a million miles from what you're probably into but
very close to what lute-related folks were into, not
that long ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkUOvsy2L6Y
http://earlymusiccharango.blogspot.com/
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--- Anthony Hind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear all
I just received a garbled mail tittled
Baroque-lute-request anthony-
hind and
with some references to nescafé that I can see.
I knowingly sent no such mail. I don't
chat concerning carbon strings does nothing to
diminish our carbon foot ... er ... finger print(s) -
cooking oil strings?
just found out that one of the lunatics in our village
(lunatic in the genuine sense of the word) caused some
concern with the local health officials some time ago
when it was
frustration...
Saludos from Barcelona,
Manolo Laguillo
bill kilpatrick wrote:
i know you'll say it's none of my business - and
quite
right too - but i can't help feeling just that
little
bit anxious for the welfare of your poor little,
etiolated vihuelas and baroque guitars
manolo - far-far from music but interesting from the
point of view of an american living in europe, is the
europeans. it's a short novel, less dense than some
of his monster novels - the best of which (imho) is
the portrait of a lady.
david - i've read most of his novels but the
ambassadors
it's a recurring nighmare/fantasy of mine that i
stumble into a huntin'fishin'-type shop with only a
few pennies in my pocket, trying to replace a busted
string on my charango - my only means of support.
i don't know what sort of lute you have or if the
following has any relevance ... but in the
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 06:22 PM 6/8/2007, bill kilpatrick wrote:
toe tapping stuff from this blind sudanese oud
player
- interesting way of holding a risha:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjgozomLcLs
(from mike's ouds)
Good stuff. There's a lot of Western
you're already loaded with options ... but uploading
the video to your blog site (if you have one) is also
an option.
- bill
--- Leonard Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know how to save a YouTube
video? Women in Art (not to
mention the many lute videos) is great, but my
ed -
i can't say i was actually looking forward to seeing
you in your smalls ... but i was just that little bit
curious. alas, all that was revealed from your lute
posting on my computer was an enormous q for
quicktime and nothing else.
go-on ... post your video to youtube and let's 'ave
you
reluctance - by robert frost - from a boy's will
collection of poems(1913):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WdWO_4af1I
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I would be tempted to use it as a racket though ...
batter-up batov
badminton bean-boppin'
bowl-back berater
(charangosmiley symbol ... huge one) - bill
http://earlymusiccharango.blogspot.com/
a simple experiment, to prove that a combined,
two-bout, figure 8-style sound chamber is better -
more resonate ... different (at any rate) - than one
is to drop a ping-pong ball into the sound chamber of
your instrument. i realize that for those with fixed
roses this is an impossibility but it's
fabulous - thank you.
- bill
--- Stephan Olbertz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
yesterday I spoke with Knud Sindt, a german
lutemaker in Spain and a very nice guy.
I just looked at his web page which surprisingly has
a video of his workshop:
http://www.knud.es/
What a nice idea!
you'awl may laugh and joke but i've got dyslexia big
time and i simply can not - not WILL not - but CAN not
.. read music - in both tabs and notation. i can
forge through a melody, note by note but it's a long
and painful process. i only really know a piece
when i hear it. (godbless midi and
absolutely -
to those who can look at a manuscript and read it
effortlessly w/o strum und drum, this inability to
read music must seem like someone who is incapable of
tieing his own shoe laces ... but i assure you - five
lines and wildly wiggly dots have little to do with
what me and my charango
absolutely -
to those who can look at a manuscript and read it
effortlessly w/o strum und drum, this inability to
read music must seem like someone who is incapable of
tieing his own shoe laces ... but i assure you - five
wavering
lines and wildly wiggly dots have little to do with
what me and my
how's'zat for alliteration! ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldTqGMvPTig
- bill
http://earlymusiccharango.blogspot.com/
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To get on or off this
vinum bonum et suave
bache bene venies
tourdion
make it one for my baby and one more for the road
copper kettle
cigarettes and whiskey and wild-wild women
.. and who could forget:
what made milwaukee famous has made a fool out of me
um-umm!
http://earlymusiccharango.blogspot.com/
bella fancuilla with lute has been brought to my
attention:
http://www.luteduo.com/gallery.htm
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another timid soul has brought his pin-up to my
attention:
http://www.hillenet.net/downloads/default.shtml
do orchestral musicians have lockers?
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--- Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
another timid soul has brought his pin-up to my
attention:
http://www.hillenet.net/downloads/default.shtml
She is a grandmother!
RT
do orchestral musicians have
pc for all the right reasons, rest assured ... but
gracing the inside of my locker would be a photo of
lucie skeaping:
http://www.lucieskeaping.co.uk/
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bo' ... she and catherine bott take turns hosting a
wonderful early music program on the bbc:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/presenters/lucie_skeaping.shtml
- bill
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odd you should say that as i'm on the case for
anything classic - contemporary or other wise - that's
been written for - or adaptable to - the charango.
contemporary music for the lute might present problems
as the instrument is largely considered to be a period
instrument, associated almost
20-plus years ago i saw nigel kennedy do the same
thing in a pedestrian passageway under hammersmith
circle in london. he was dressed up to look like the
character on the cover of the aqualung album by
jethro tull. i put some money in his hat and listened
for while but i'm sure very few others
old hobb is dead as well.
darwin wins ... a double header! - bill
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it was still rock n' roll.
respectfully (but at a distance) - bill
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Dear Lutenetters
maybe of interest
Classical Brits Old Man Face-Off: Sting Vs Paul
McCartney
empress of all flowers ...
i fear david may be right in that the preconcieved
notions people carry with them can sometimes make it
.. the thing itself - seem unrecognizable.
can too much information be just as dangerous (in a
tree for the forest situation) as too little?
--- David Rastall
empress of all flowers ...
i fear david may be right in that the preconcieved
notions people carry with them can sometimes make it
.. the thing itself - seem unrecognizable.
can too much information be just as dangerous (in a
tree for the forest situation) as too little?
--- David Rastall
--- David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because you play that thing that Sting plays. Ho!
Ho! Just
kidding. Seriously, we're all mystified by
Sting's success.
i'm mystified as well but more for the baggage that
a talented, soulful, so-called pop artist is obliged
to carry with him
'yep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByB9H1ZiuYc
.. followed by:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZLIjujIUU0
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archaeology.
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--- Donatella Galletti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
poveri noi
( I can't translate...)
Donatella
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From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute list lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent
i'm currently embroiled in a dust-up over on the
rec.early.music site - although i hope everything has
settled down now - over just how old this sort of folk
music is - did folks sing like this in the
medieval/renaissance periods ... did they sing or even
play instruments at all? incredibly
there's also the vihuela de penola - played with
plectrum - but a rose by any other name is ... thorny.
--- gary digman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is not the Italian term viola the equivalent of
the Spanish vihuela' and
the Portugese violao? And, as I understand it,
these terms were origially
boo ... hiss ... not absolutely bril' wit from la
saunders.
i wonder if her script called for (laughter) after.
--- Daniel Shoskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In today's NY Times there is an article about
Clatterford a BBC
comedy created by Jennifer Saunders (of Absolutely
Fabulous
- and
in my dreams ... - i find the idea of a prehistoric
lute to be something of a marvel.
--- bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
an item posted to mike's oud site concerns an
egyptian
musician named harmosis, 1500 bc, who (according to
drawings in his tomb) played a guembri-like
an item posted to mike's oud site concerns an egyptian
musician named harmosis, 1500 bc, who (according to
drawings in his tomb) played a guembri-like
instrument. anyone know anything about this man?
regards - bill
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picked this up on mike's oud site:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn10686feedId=online-news_rss20
.. says that a unique method of wood preservation
might be responsible for the tone of his instruments -
not the denser wood, produced by an unusually cold
winter theory, previously
found the following on this wonderful site:
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Main_Page
...Of course we do not mean that it has all the
intervals necessary to form scales in all those keys,
but that we find it playing tunes that are in one or
other of them. 4 Mr Ellis considers that the natural
i'm an american and an oud player and i resent like
hell the collective blanket of guilt that arto is
attempting to cast over everyone else from the good
ol' usa with his (admittedly) very off topic post.
arto - finland sided with the nazis during the second
world war. i know there were reasons
well played - very delicate. with him in the shadows
and you serenading in the soft light of an adjacent
street lamp ... how could she refuse.
that's microphone he's got ...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDhInGzWrkE
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.. keeps popping up:
http://hitchcock.tv/mov/trouble_with_harry/harry.html
--- Stuart LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...separated at birth?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Bates
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a worth contributor to the list contacted me privately
to say that feelings is actually a braziian song
called dime and takes on a different character when
played in a ... HIP manner and placed in the context
of Jobim and Charlie Byrd.
couldn't agree more with him about the latter but not
so
that is to say ... consensus view - sorry - ed.
--- bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
a worth contributor to the list contacted me
privately
to say that feelings is actually a braziian song
called dime and takes on a different character
when
played in a ... HIP manner and placed
--- EUGENE BRAIG IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... lushly lifeless
interpretation of Pachelbel's Canon directly into
their brains. Beware ye who gig weddings!
could be worse ...
FEE-LINGS ... NOTHING MORE THAN FEE-LINGS! ...
(whoa-a-whoa)
.. gedda'mac ...
(smile sign) - bill
--- Tony Chalkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm replying to myself to ask a question. In the
words of Hagrid, I
shouldna said tha'
It looks great (all I did yesterday was look at
what's on offer), but today
I tried to look at the videos and I
not one of your favorite topics - i know - but it's an
interesting paper and well researched ... besides,
it's been such a long time ...
http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/trans8/baumann.htm
posted by martyn, here:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Charango/
- bill
yes - Scots Wha' Hae ... and if you haven't already
contacted him (or her), ask one of the many pipers you
admire to join in. it can be sung, dirge like - as
burns intended it - but carried on, up-tempo, into a
rather rousing, toe-tapping ditty.
- bill
--- Charles Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
anyone seen the news programs on aljazeera.english
yet?
it's a new day.
- bill
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while i work out arto's wonderful xmas present on my
charango, i though you might like to try this for some
absolutely delicious holiday nosh:
walnuts - whole or half - tossed lightly in olive oil
with a sprinkling of salt, pepper and - wait for it! -
cinnamon! (secret ingredient ... ) toasted in
painful ...
eyemake-up was essential however.
--- Doc Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this one leaves me speechless, but check out the
right hand towards
the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b56WO5ctL8E
Actually, I've been trying to find the videos of
Hopkinson Smith
playing
just out of curiosity, does any negative, contemporary
criticism exist for the way dowland performed? did
anyone record the comments of others or personally put
pen to paper, accusing him of arrogance or being a
poseur - piqued commentary borne of envy, perhaps?
- bill
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i'm thinking of singing a few dowland songs myself -
probably with charango accompaniment. who do i have
to check with? haven't paid my dues - ever - but i'm
with the union!
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the adam and eve music festival ...
i invision a two-part program consisting of contented
(if aimless) humming followed by sighs of the ol'
ennui in the first half, leading to gasps of
consternation and gnashing of teeth in the second.
identifiable tunes - snatches of, or in total - from
any
in days of old ... wasn't the majority of musical
knowledge passed from one to another in a show me how
you did that ... situation - where one person played
and another one copied? tabs or notation - either/or
- was simply for those unfortunates without the prime
benefit of someone better to play
thank you mathais for that. before sky replaced
whatever there was before it here in italy, we used to
be able to get tv stations from all over north africa
and the middle east - oman was always a treat for
ouds.
ciao - bill
--- Mathias Rösel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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thank you arthur - perhaps spit is just a tad too
cryptic.
as i understand it, moisture of any sort is
detrimental to wood IF it stays long enough to do any
damage. if you simply dab a piece of cotton cloth on
your tongue and then rub it gently over the stain, it
should be enough to remove it.
-
From: bill kilpatrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 5:38 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: cleaning
thank you arthur - perhaps spit is just a tad
too
cryptic.
as i understand it, moisture of any sort is
detrimental to wood IF it stays
shocking! ... someone aught to send round the
hip-constabulary and ruff (geddit?) her up.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
without opening all that Sting thing again, I found
something that may be of
interest in the what is a normal voice discussion.
Today Pantagruel got an add
operatic tenors to me sounds like he's making a
distinction between those who are trained to project
their voices with the aid of their diaphragm - a
brisk, penetrating, back-of-the-hall-reaching, royal
shakespeare company voice - as opposed to someone
speaking (singing) normally.
--- [EMAIL
luis delgado
marc loopuy
jorge milchberg
--- Andreas Schlegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear all
I'm writing a book on the European lute for non
specialists. It's one
with many colour photos of historic instruments, in
two languages
(german - english).
Now I'm looking for a list with
.. and the great eduardo paniagua
--- Andreas Schlegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear all
I'm writing a book on the European lute for non
specialists. It's one
with many colour photos of historic instruments, in
two languages
(german - english).
Now I'm looking for a list with famous
background information - not vitriol.
the following was posted to the rec.music.early site
by francis biggi in response to a negative comment,
belittleing karamazov's playing and lamenting sting's
financial gain from the recordings:
... Edin is not a 3d class player. just think of his
work
thanks david -
la rossignol was a treat as well but i had to put
sting dowland in the you tube search engine to
up-load them both.
in all the kerfluffle over this recording i don't
remember seeing the names of the luthiers who made
their instruments. anyone know? both look and sound
beautiful
publicity for sting's dowland recordings just kicked
into gear here in italy.
italian announcers are going to have an awful time
pronouncing th in labyrnth - a deep, gutsy,
testosterone enriched italian voice touting eric
clapton's from the cradle cd made it from the
craddle.
those of you who
, bill kilpatrick
wrote:
...my own take on re-entrant tuning is:
...you can pursue the high reaches of
the melody without climbing up the neck
I don't follow you. Doesn't it work the other
way?
The highest
pitched string in re-entrant tuning would be
either
the second
saw a program about noise on the bbc, featuring the
rock band status quo. i can't remember at what
decibel level endorphins kick-in but it was discovered
that amplified music just before that level became
much more pleasureable to the those listening when
the volume was cranked up to reach it.
i
i've tried several variations on the charango's
gg-cc-eE-aa-ee re-entrant tuning - all but one of
which (gg-cc-eE-aa-dd) produced something less than
the original.
my own take on re-entrant tuning is:
- for tuning in 4ths it produces the best sound
available for an instrument with a short
:
On Oct 13, 2006, at 10:00 AM, bill kilpatrick wrote:
...my own take on re-entrant tuning is:
...you can pursue the high reaches of
the melody without climbing up the neck
I don't follow you. Doesn't it work the other way?
The highest
pitched string in re-entrant tuning would be either
excellent - that's you and bill wyman, right?
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one of the first posters i ever bought was a copy of
the mona lisa and i learned a lot from it - much
more than i was able to i learn from the original when
it was brought to new york in 1960-something and i was
whisked past it briefly, along with thousands of
others in line. i learned about
what manolo says sounds like good common sense to me -
a good musician will make even a rubberband cigar
box guitar sound alright.
historically speaking, i wonder how many lutes
medieval or renaissance players had during their life
time - a pakistani or ems, diy kit quality lute
might have been
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