One thing that has not been mentioned is that we have choices - we all, or most of us, or some of us, can choose to play a certain part of our repertoire on our Les Paul/Marshall, or our classical guitar, or our romantic guitar, or our bandora, or ukulele or even saxophone or synth in some cases. If we can choose to play Spanish music on our vihuela we can choose to play Babbit on our (analogue tube) synth. So maybe we are overlooking contemporary lute music because we tend to pick up a different instrument to play something modern. Especially when we need to be as loud as everyone else.
Does anyone here not have or play any instrument at all but the lute? Wayne > Begin forwarded message: > > From: WALSH STUART <s.wa...@ntlworld.com> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Some questions > Date: March 16, 2018 at 12:26:07 PM EDT > > If it seems odd to want to play modern music on a lute it is surely odder to > only play a lute and only ever to play music that was composed centuries ago. > > Perhaps no one is odd enough for that! If there were such a person - who > would only, ever, play centuries' old music (however gem-laden it may be) - > would it be enough to say that this choice was the harmless choice of a free > being? > > There is no obvious harm to others in such a case but perhaps it's a case of > self-harm. > -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
