Dear Wayne,
Due to a desire to play Loud lute music, I bought a 7-steel string
electric guitar and another 8-steel string electric guitar partly
because they were so dirt cheap compared to lutes, which are simply not
available at the local Guitar Center. After I learned they
sell guitars on consignment, including my cheap 7-string, I asked if I
could sell some lutes on consignment. They said NO. I haven't played
these two guitars much because they are H e a v y! and because the
strings hurt my gnarled fingers, and so on.
Best wishes,
Mark
On Friday, March 16, 2018 10:04 AM, Wayne <wst...@cs.dartmouth.edu>
wrote:
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 <[1]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.
>
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