[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-13 Thread gary digman
The internet is a bathroom wall. Gary - Original Message - From: Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 5:01 AM Subject: [LUTE] Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century Lute and guitar

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-12 Thread Roman Turovsky
OUch. It is selfexplanItory. RT - Original Message - From: Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 8:01 AM Subject: [LUTE] Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century Lute and guitar history

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-12 Thread Omer Katzir
who the crack wrote this thing...? make me want to upload my Guitar I thesis... On Jan 12, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: OUch. It is selfexplanItory. RT - Original Message - From: Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, January

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-12 Thread William Brohinsky
It is the ultimate irony that someone, somewhere, will pay real money in order to read this 3-page collection of drivel. They may even copy the entire thing and give it in as their own writing (which is, after all, the purpose of these kinds of sites.) They will simultaneously be gigged for

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-12 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
Good thing for the author that nobody on this list is grading that essay. Eugene -Original Message- From: Stuart Walsh [mailto:s.wa...@ntlworld.com] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 8:02 AM To: Lute Net Subject: [LUTE] Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-12 Thread Mayes, Joseph
It takes only one of these execrable essays to set the pace of scholarship back decades. I wonder how many people take this at face value? __ From: Stuart Walsh [mailto:s.wa...@ntlworld.com] Sent: Mon 1/12/2009

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-12 Thread Guy Smith
And the writing is terrible, never mind the ill-informed content. Maybe they did that deliberately, so that the Professor would think that the student actually wrote it:-) Back in my professoring days, many of my students could barely form a coherent sentence, much less a grammatical one (a

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-12 Thread demery
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009, Mayes, Joseph ma...@rowan.edu said: It takes only one of these execrable essays to set the pace of scholarship back decades. I wonder how many people take this at face value? a few will take the hint from the many 'join now' buttons and see what wikipedia has to

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-12 Thread G. Crona
It can't all be bad though. I searched for lute which turned up many essays, one of which was the novel A confederancy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, that I hadn't heard about before, but which looks like a fun promising read for the bedside table containing a tiny lute connection. G.

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-12 Thread Tom Draughon
Amazing! This makes me think of a collection of essay faux pas collected by a teacher from Minnesota, which he compiled into a short history of the world. It was hilarious, including such tidbits as a particular saint who died when he was cannonized, and how Magellan circumcised the world

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-12 Thread Roman Turovsky
I have the book and tried to read it, but when the main characted went to a local music shop for a set of lute strings I've realized the book was phony, and that was the end of it. RT - Original Message - From: G. Crona kalei...@gmail.com To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent:

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-12 Thread G. Crona
Phony it may be, but the characters seem quite eccentric and fun. I've already lol'd in the first chapter. I'll give it a chance. Can't be that bad though - got the P-prize... G. - Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky r.turov...@verizon.net To: Lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent:

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-12 Thread Roman Turovsky
In New Orleans? You've gotta be kiddin'. RT From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com I have the book and tried to read it, but when the main characted went to a local music shop for a set of lute strings I've realized the book was phony, and that was the end of it. It was possible in the

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-12 Thread Bruno Fournier
La bella lute strings...wow that brings back nightmares from the 70's incidentally they are still available: [1]http://www.juststrings.com/labellalute.html Bruno Cognyl-Fournier On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:38 PM, howard posner [2]howardpos...@ca.rr.com wrote: On Jan

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-12 Thread Christopher Stetson
Indeed, they do, and one can get them online: http://www.juststrings.com/labellalute.html howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com 1/12/2009 7:38 PM On Jan 12, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: I have the book and tried to read it, but when the main characted went to a local music shop for

[LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century

2009-01-12 Thread Daniel Winheld
But wait! There's more! http://www.nrinstruments.demon.co.uk/LuSt.html ...and for a lousy £400.09 you can get a 10-course English set with a doubled first! Indeed, they do, and one can get them online: http://www.juststrings.com/labellalute.html -- To get on or off this list see list