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. >>>> -- >>>> >>>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> >> >> > >
