Hi all, My first hearing of the lute was on a Harmonia Mundi sampler cd back in 1990. I was thirteen, and the track was 'Go Merely Wheele' by John Johnson, played by Paul O'Dette & Lyle Nordstrom. I then acquired 'English Lute Duets' (Jakob Lindberg & Paul O'Dette) and 'Virtuoso Lute Music From Italy and England' (Jakob Lindberg).
At sixteen I acquired my first lute, an Ian Harwood instrument that I still play, and a copy of Poulton's tutor. I found a set of the OUP Lute series in Singapore's National Library and started making my way through the facsimile booklets. A guitar teacher friend loaned me a copy of Noad's 'The Renaissance Guitar' and I tried to 'reïntabulate' some bits and found it a pain. It must have been some years after my first hearing of the lute that I first heard Bream's playing, and my first impression was being greatly turned off by the tone of his playing. It was hard and glassy, and not sensual in the least. Just my two farthings. Edward Chrysogonus Yong [email protected] To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
