Carl Donsbach wrote: > Early colonial life was hard! The early English and Spanish colonies in > North America were not characterized by much musical cultural growth, and > there is little evidence of lute playing or making in those times. Musical > instruments (lutes included) tended to get left at home by emigrating > colonists.
I wouldn't be so quick to equate a lack of evidence of large numbers of lutes with a lack of music. It might give you a skewed view of Vienna in the 1820's. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
