So does anyone play contemporary music on the vihuela? A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Francisco Goya
> On Mar 16, 2018, at 10:01 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 <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 > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cs.dartmouth.edu_-7Ewbc_lute-2Dadmin_index.html&d=DwIBAg&c=l45AxH-kUV29SRQusp9vYR0n1GycN4_2jInuKy6zbqQ&r=VLPJ8OE-c_C6joGeE1ftlvxMmQPq9N6mpKZONBRt90E&m=Cq8_Cpp93PPDjIzmNaKVn8vhxOpTAIt0w7NhvHvrI90&s=mXP2XUbNefjdSer1k5XKJOE4VcXoSp90MOCETu-wPOk&e=
