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- From: "Michael Squires" <mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: Re: Lute tunings
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.003117.10645@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
- References: <880840m.53.722185337@ace.acadiau.ca> <mjc.722276420@NL.CS.CMU.EDU> <446-JNEWS-2.1@smylex.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:31:09 -0500
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- In article <446-JNEWS-2.1@smylex.UUCP> Godfrey de Shipbrook <jlee@smylex.UUCP> writes:
- >
- >(Of course, as someone hath said, if a lute is in the room with another
- >instrument, the lute cannot be heard -- even if the other instrument is
- >silent.)
-
- Well...
-
- Not true of the steel-strung Renaissance lutes, and Binkley has no problems
- being heard over the ensemble when playing medieval lute with his
- grad students here at the IU Medieval Institute.
-
- On the other hand, Robinson makes it clear that the lute's primary social
- function was as a means of allowing a young man and a young woman to
- sit close together; the typical father laments that his money spent on
- lute lessons is wasted when the daughter stops playing the lute the moment
- she's married.
-
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