Lovely words Njaal, I thank you.
I am going to make a link, or an attachment, or something else, to
connect to the fine voices I've heard from the Lute-Builders. I may have
to stay aboard and just ignore the matters on diagrams and building
techniques. what a fine bunch of people love the lute and the
construction, but I don't have the time left for that. Yet the music is
another matter, and we always have time for that.
As you sent to all I'll reply to all. I have grandchildren who play
instruments (but not as strict students, thank the lord). My children
live far away - my daughter in Chicago and my son in Texas, and me in
New Jersey. It has been a year an a half since I've seen my Texas
grandsons (12 and 14) and Chicago twin granddaughters (9). Their parents
have taught them the love of music. not a desire to play rote music. The
most wonderful thing I've heard was when the family visited three and a
half years ago. I sang Hush Little Baby to my granddaughters and one
asked her mother why I sang "papa's gonna buy a mockingbird" and she
sang it as "momma's". My daughter, who was about 5 when her mother moved
her to Idaho after our divorce, said "that is because my poppa sang it
to me that way, and I sang it to you because I'm your mamma". It was a
moment of emotion for this unemotional old fart - I knew then that my
brief years with my children had registered for life.
Music is sound, and sense, and soul. It is not notes on a score.
Best, Jon
On 1/17/2016 5:45 AM, Njål Bendixen wrote:
John
Your posts have always been amusing and insightful. One of the reasons
why I have stayed on the list myself. I joined the list in the days of
David van Edwards' baroque lute making internet course. I made myself a
lute at the time when I was an aspiring guitar maker. I later became a
violin restorer and double bass specialist. For living people life has
strange ways of unfolding itself, and I wish you well in whatever may
come your way.
Njaal
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