I've been reading the travel diaries of John Clerk of Penicuick (near Edinburgh). He studied with Corelli in Rome, but also spent some time in Leyden, Holland. He befriended one Boerhaave, whom he decribes as being 'a big and clumsy man, with fingers proportionable, yet from the time I had left him in Holland he had acquired a dexterity in playing on the French lute above all men I have ever heard'.
Has anyone heard of Boerhaave? Any surviving music? Rob PS I now have an 11c lute! To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
