Dear Ed: That's my point, the Lute community is too small as it is, why should we, by our behavior, keep it small or make it smaller? It seems to me that if there were more people interested in playing the Lute that there would be more business (bad word to some and I apologize) for Luthiers, publishers, and string makers a like.
Look,--- if some things like this do not get commercialized to some degree no one would be able to get strings because no one would make them for free, and music would only be available to those near enough to a library that had manuscripts available for us to look at and copy out of. Of course that does not even mention the instrument itself. Most people would be forced to make do with a retuned Guitar or in my case make their own instrument, if there were not people out there that make their living producing these magical items. So if someone makes an income in the Lute world it is not likely that this is their only reason for getting involved with the Lute. But an interesting thing in this whole mess is that no one seems to find a way to criticize those individuals who have enough musical talent to make a living playing the bloody thing. Vance Wood. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Margerum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 7:31 AM Subject: Re: Size of the lute world > At 8:27 PM -0800 12/6/03, Vance Wood wrote: > > > As a whole I have never been exposed > >to a group, boasting interest passionately in a particular endeavor, that is > >more driven by ego, pride, condescension, duplicity and judgementalism. > > Period attitudes for a period instrument? It sounds like 16th and > 17th century Europe to me. However, today there probably there > aren't enough lutenists for the flame wars to escalate into real wars. > > Ed Margerum > > >
