Dear Arto an all, the female ones top them males here in the eastern part of Bajuvaria, too: last May I received a wonderful new 10 course lute in Regensburg and rode home by train . One of a group of girls in the compartment asked what instrument were in the case and said after I had answered that it was a lute: "I thought so!" Best, Joachim "Arto Wikla" <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 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!" > > Once I carried my 10 course lute in a bus. A couple of rows behind there > was a group of female teenagers. One of them explained in Finnish to the > others: No, no, this cannot be a "kontrabasso" (double bass in English), > it must be a "kontratenori" (counter tenor in English). Quite clever, I > had to admit to myself. :) > > Arto > > -- Dr. Joachim Lüdtke Frühlingsstraße 9a D - 93164 Laaber Tel. +49-+9498 / 905 188
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