Haven't heard this of Bakfark, but on a famous post-mortem-engraving of Weiss the inscription reads Es soll nur Sylvius die Laute spielen (Sylvius alone shall play the lute), a quote from a poem.
Also, I've somewhere read a description of Count Logy's final hour, when Logy ordered all of his lutes to be brought with black ribbons and their soundboards down, saying: Woe to them, that will not be sounded again! (or so) As a rhetorical figure, it may go back to Deuteronomy 34:10 where it is said that after Moses' death "not did stand up a prophet in Israel like Moses whom the LORD would know face to face". --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There is a quote that goes something like: > "nobody should play the lute after Bakfark" -- Best, Mathias Mathias Roesel, Grosze Annenstrasze 5, 28199 Bremen, Deutschland/ Germany, T/F: +49 - 421 - 165 49 97, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
