Tom wrote,
'Music is music, and that is our topic,' Jon writes, and that is 1000000000%
correct!! I've only been a member for a short time, and I fail to see why
people who play so harmless an instrument as the lute should go on about
politics.
MT wrote,
Well Tom, some people who play the harmless lute, would find it not so
harmless, like Wiess who nearly got his thumb bitten off by a fellow
musician, over the politics of music.
So far it hasn't come to that .........yet? Last time I checked my
thumb was still there.
Michael Thames
Luthier
www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com
Site design by Natalina Calia-Thames
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Subject: The lute world
> 'Music is music, and that is our topic,' Jon writes, and that is
1000000000%
> correct!! I've only been a member for a short time, and I fail to see why
> people who play so harmless an instrument as the lute should go on about
politics,
> Jews or anything else. It ought to be a pleasure chatting about music, the
> instruments and the rest of it. There's surely enough bad blood out there
in the
> real world for this little haven to remain what it ought to be, a haven. I
> can't pretend to have read 99.9% of the e-mails concerning whatever is
going on.
> I just click them off. But this is a great pity. I personally joined up to
> learn about the lute, chat about music, and nothing else. Wayne seems to
have
> provided the lute community with a fabulous service. I've downloaded vast
> amounts of the music he's put on the internet, play it every day, and had
hoped to
> carry on in the spirit Wayne obviously intended for this community. It
seems to
> me that those who want to fight battles that have nothing to do with
lutes,
> their music and their world, should either do so privately, or go
elsewhere.
> And it also seems grossly discourteous to Wayne, who has gone to so much
trouble
> to promote the lute, etc., to misuse his kind services for any purpose not
> connected with either music or general friendly chat among musicians.
>
>
> Tom Beck
>
>
