Dear Ching-Ping: I would also like to extend my welcome to you. It is great to hear from someone in China.
In my capacity as Webmaster for the Lute Society of America I try to track who is interested in our electronic offerings and where they are located. For example, our YouTube channel has been on the air for four years now and is on track to hit 100,000 all-time total views this month. http://bit.ly/N87o48 The greatest number of the hits are from the USA, though those constitute only 22%. In clear second place is Japan, with 10% – I know Ed Durbrow is a great fan of ours (Hi, Ed!), but there is no way he can account for 10,000 views by himself! The really amazing thing to me is that China, for all its billions of people, has produced only 17 views of our material in all that time. Thus is clear that interest in the European lute and knowledge about it must be almost non-existent in China. I hope you will be successful in spreading the word about our favorite instrument among your friends and acquaintances there. Regards, Daniel Heiman -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ching-Ping Lin Sent: 02 August, 2014 19:46 To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] hello and introductions Dear All, I'm new and have been reading for a while, but thought I should say hello to everyone. I live in Beijing and I've mainly been an early music singer, but I'm excited to be taking up the lute. It has not been easy (that's an understatement actually) getting an instrument, books or instruction over here, but I have to send many thanks to Ed Durbrow for helping me out from Japan. Glad to be part of this community, Ching-Ping -- 林青萍 Ching-Ping Lin [email protected] To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
