>> Edin is an specialized lutenist (one of the best around, I should add), >> and >> >> Sting knows about Dowland (and about singing) as much as many so called >> professional singers. >> > > These are all very vague terms, what is a specialized lutenist and when > you > say sting knows about Dowland, I would say he knowledge is mot very deep. > > In the booklet to the CD (yes I have heard it and it is "Junk") he says > that > Dowland wrote so many verses for Come again. Well if he would have had a > look > at a facsilile he would have seen that the last 4 verses are an alternate > text > and not to be sung with the first two. > > I think Edin is a specialised lutenist, he seems to have specialised in > being > as unauthentic as possible. > > Another thing I know know from a secure source that he often uses single > strung archlutes with a very high tension. There is also a video of him > using such > an instrument in the recording session. > > Just a last word I think anyone can use any instrument they want and play > how > they want, but when they go around saying they play authentic instruments > and > base their playing on research that is so faulty then this is not being > "wild", "experimental" or "open-minded" it is just selling something under > false > name. > > For a project that shuns the early music movement ability to know anything > about how the music may have sound it is extrordinary how many statements > they > make about how "authentic" theor performances are. > > Just a thought, lute playing was always an expensive thing, but have pity > on > the sting fans who want to play the lute, they now have to have a PA > system > and effects board to get the sound of the CD. But they at least save money > on > strings, back to the old pyramid days and you only need half of them! > Mark You know, Mark, I am reminded by an Oscar Wilde's dictum, something like- "It is common to commiserate with a stranger's trouble, but it takes a really fine nature to appreciate a friend's success." RT
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