At 12:25 PM 03/08/2004 -0600, Herbert Ward wrote: > > My not-so-scholarly take: > > Good lutes were working tools and subject to the whims and clumsiness of > > working musicians. Paintings were valuable decoration to be preserved > well > > out of the way of trouble. > > >Seems like the owners would have been more careful than to have destroyed >_all_ of their lutes. But I've never climbed onto a horse with a lute, so >perhaps I should be more understanding.
This wasn't meant to always imply destruction. Of course, part of the whim of working musicians historically has been conversion of outmoded instruments to more modern forms through the addition of courses, riders, additional pegboxes, a new neck, etc. Eugene
