Me - And someone is selling a banjo/lute on my lutes for sale page! http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/forsale.html
Wayne > Hey, don't knock it -- the banjo is how I got to the lute in the first place! > Are there any other banjo/lutenists out there? > > -- > Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD Begin forwarded message: > From: Catherine Arnott Smith <[email protected]> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: What's the point to 'historical sound' > > On 7/4/2011 7:16 PM, [email protected] wrote > > "Well, I come from Stratford-Avon with a lute upon my knee ..." > > in response to this: >>> Actually, if we 'reverse >>> engineer' a lute sufficiently, we'll probably end up with a banjo. >> > > Hey, don't knock it -- the banjo is how I got to the lute in the first place! > Are there any other banjo/lutenists out there? > > -- > Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD > Assistant Professor > School of Library and Information Studies > University of Wisconsin-Madison > > "Employed professionally to test ideas and propose solutions, to deepen > knowledge and refresh perspectives" > [Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson in Jefferson vs. Cuccinelli, quoted in editorial, > "A Shabby Crusade in Wisconsin", [New York Times, 28 Mar 2011]. > > Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, > and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. > (Peter Warlock - The Sackbut - 1926) > > "Be sure you choose what you believe and know why you believe it, because if > you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and > probably not a very creditable one, will choose you." > > Robertson Davies, The Manticore (London: Penguin, 1972; pp. 477-478) > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
