I draw the attention of the list (again, I believe) to this quote:
" 'Inigo Jones first brought the theorbo in England c. ann. 1605. At Dover it was thought some engine brought from Popish countries to destroy the King, and he and it sent up to Council Table.' " -- David Munrow (quoting "Dr. Plume"), Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, p. 78. Do we know of other cases of theorbos, archlutes, harpguitars, or any other instrument with "extra" bass strings being used in pursuit of political or military dominance or subversion? Just wondering.... Best to all, and keep playing, Chris. On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:25 AM, David van Ooijen <[1][email protected]> wrote: On 4 July 2011 16:35, Ron Andrico <[2][email protected]> wrote: > David wrote: > > Ron's question, made relevant for the listers, freely translates to .. > Just a minute, buddy. This kind of 'freely translated' interpretation > of someone else's words has led to such disasters as the search for > weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as a justification for attack, and I had a fun weekend on the lute list, and thank you all kindly for it, but don't remember bringing up world politics. Perhaps you are referring to the fact that occasionally I bring archlutes of mass distraction to Iran? It's a neighbouring country, full of friendly people playing tar and setar, no justification for attacking them. > the abstraction of the term 'reverse engineering' to justify the > invention of a new instrument to play old music. Perhaps you're mixing up Davids here. I do agree, there are too many of us. David - the lefty -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [3][email protected] [4]www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
