Dan;
What's your definition of "doing better"?
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Winheld" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 10:18 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Dilettantism
One thing I didn't address in my rant;
Are we in the lute world systematically harming our playing standards,
even the reputation of our instrument, by spreading ourselves too
thin? Wouldn't we do better to specialise?
As to harming playing standards (apart from time constraints) I find
that archlute/Baroque lute practice mutually reinforce each other,
archlute/vihuela reinforce each other, and 6-course lute/vihuela
"sort of" reinforce each other. 6-course lute and Barque lute don't
care if they never see each other; and the steel-string guitar is
happy to ruin things for all the other instruments if practiced to
excess.
Specialization always helps when practice time is limited.
I don't know about you all, or "the instrument" as a personified
entity, but we won't even talk about my bad reputation.
Dan
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