At 11:31 AM 10/3/2006, Doctor Oakroot wrote: >OK, here's a dumb question... Most of the lutes listed on the EMS site are >"lutes by so-and-so" (Substitute various names for so-and-so)... Are those >folks not luthiers? Why would some random luthier be better than one who >sells through EMS?
I think they'd be as good as any comparable (I've heard good of Robb, e.g.), but they weren't necessarily the subject of the original inquiry. It was the CA$780 lutes in which Robin expressed curiosity. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
