Howar Posner scripsit: >> I couldn't sleep at night if I took your money on a sucker bet like that. >> Were I a gambling man (I'm not), I might take bets on whether there are more >> professional lutenists in London now than there were in the entire world >> forty years ago. > > Probably true, if your definition of a professional lutenist in London > today depends on counting on anyone who owns a lute and produced a vanity > CD. I would suggest that the way to measure this, is to walk into Border's > or Tower Records, and see how many lute CDs are available in the bins. > Since we cannot walk into similar stores in 1956 or so, we have to go by > existing discographies. In 1990, I published a discography of guitar > records. It includes a section of lute recordings, mostly LPs that were > produced before 1990. The picture it gives is illuminating. Check Lutenists-on-Record at http://www.osuna.com/instruments/lute.html Useful for statistics.... RT
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