On 12/08/13 2:46 AM, William Samson wrote:
Sadly, I suspect that 'sidewalk lutenists' wouldn't attract the same
queues as sidewalk astronomers. Even I, as a lutenist, have a much
clearer recollection of my first view of Saturn's rings through a
telescope than I have of first hearing a lute.
As a matter of fact, I once saw this "sidewalk lutenist" in a piazza in
Venice:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53488562/lutenist%20in%20Venice.jpg
He was drawing quite a crowd, in fact. This was on a tour of Italy
following the March 31 2006 solar eclipse in Jalu, Libya. A friend saw
him a couple of months ago there, and he's now selling CDs, just as
someone here suggested.
I can't remember when I first _heard_ a lute, probably when I bought a
Julian Bream LP of lute music, but I have a vivid memory of first
_seeing_ a lute (actually a lute guitar), in a Montreal music store
window at the age of 17 or 18. It was love at first sight, and I knew I
had to own and play one, though it was 20 years later that I achieved that.
Geoff
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Geoff Gaherty
Foxmead Observatory
Coldwater, Ontario, Canada
http://www.gaherty.ca
http://starrynightskyevents.blogspot.com/
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