Thank you, Alain.  This is music and playing/singing of the highest level.
Ned
On Dec 6, 2013, at 6:13 PM, Alain Veylit wrote:

> There is much to learn about lute songs in this video: 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZzMRwBIzLJA
> Just a passing comment...
> Alain
> 
> 
> On 12/06/2013 02:23 PM, Dan Winheld wrote:
>> 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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