>> Even my wife is not immune. I had a Weiss CD playing in the car and
>> she commented: "This can't be Barto. Barto has a better sense of
>> pulse and more consistent tone" (she was right).
>> I hope you are all satisfied with yourselves. You've created a monster!
>>
> eh, barto plays with a strange mix of gut and synthetic strings. Playing 
> is
> fabulous, his strings unfortunately not. I don't like the synthetic tone 
> of
> his lute(s), but well that's a personal opinion.
> taco
The question is "what is more worthy of Ciceronian imitation: sublime 
musicianship which is not quite purist, or purist incompetence?". The choice 
is rather clear, a few gradations of the latter notwithstanding.
RT 




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