My most recent lute student originally came to me for lessons on how to
play lute music in his beautiful Taylor steel-string guitar. Fine with
me, I have a 7 string, steel string guitar on which I rarely play
anything but lute music (a cheap Orpharion substitute). However, he fell
so in love with the lute that he now has one being built and plays a
rental in the meantime. We had exactly two lessons just on guitars.
Hell, he forced me to switch over from teaching him lute music on guitar
to just plain old lute lessons on lute.
Brohinsky nailed it all rather well. Scheidler, the last documented
professional lute player, played the emerging classical guitar as well
as the obsolescing Baroque lute and bassoon. Had to make a living. So do
a lot of us, still.
I believe it was Willy Nelson who once said "It's all one song"- (or
maybe it's the way he sings- :-) )
Dan
On 12/6/2013 2:05 PM, howard posner wrote:
I think you're veering a bit far from the definition of "force," but OK.
On Dec 6, 2013, at 2:00 PM, William Brohinsky <[email protected]> wrote:
Ernesto said:
Generally speaking, we want to get more guitarists into the lute, not the other
way around, isn't it?
yes, someone expressed that idea.
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:09 PM, howard posner <[email protected]> wrote:
On Dec 6, 2013, at 12:52 PM, William Brohinsky <[email protected]> wrote:
I have to admit to not understanding the idea that the purpose of the list or
of lutenists should be to try to force people's direction one way or the other.
I don't think anyone has actually expressed that idea.
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