> > SINGER: What on earth is it? A guitar? > > ME: Its called a theorbo. > > SINGER: Oh yeah, that's from the Middle Ages. > > (She wasn't joking)
.. and then there are those who think they've found out something: About ten years ago. Me carrying a lute in its case over a moderately crowded square in a small german town. A male teenager in a loud voice: "Hey, there's a guy carrying half an Easter egg on a stalk!" (Ey, da is'n Typ mit 'nem halben Osterei am Stiel!). I think it was a couple of years later when I sat in one of the rooms of an university's musicological dpt, playing an italian version of the Air "Je treuve sur l'herbe assise". In comes a professor: "What is this?" "A piece from an italian manuscript c 1600." "You are sure it's not hundred years later?" "Yes, I'm sure." ..... I saw he didn't believe me ... And then there are those who hear you play something like a Ricercare and ask: "Oh - that's church music isn't it?" All best, Joachim -- Dr. Joachim Lüdtke Frühlingsstraße 9a D - 93164 Laaber Tel. +49-+9498 / 905 188 -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
