I -- no, I should rather not comment on such idiosyncratic views. Let me say that much: I own two different ones of them and I am fond of occasionally playing them.
"Euge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Frankly, guitar lutes under any name are not the appropriate instrument for > anything. They don't sound like lutes, they don't sound like guitars, they > just don't sound any good at all...and most are rather shoddily > constructed. The very conception of the instrument was in a superficial, > visual aesthetic to serve a fickle crowd of amateurs celebrating some > imagined, idealized, pastoral past. -- Regards, Mathias Mathias Roesel, Grosze Annenstrasze 5, 28199 Bremen, Deutschland/ Germany, Tel +49 - 421 - 165 49 97, Fax +49 1805 060 334 480 67, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]