Dear Gary The Weichenberger CD is produced without outside finance; all the bills are paid for by Toyohiko himself. Anybody who ever did that (I did: anybody wants to buy a beatiful cd with Japanese songs, accompanied on an original Panormo?) can tell you the hopes of earning back the investment on a cd for such a small market and without distribution are close to zero. To keep the financial damage under control we decided on a selling price of E 20, with an additional E 5 for p&p. I am sorry to hear that it is too expensive for you. But if we can support a fellow lute player perhaps we should be willing to pay a little extra.
yours David ***************************************** LGS-Europe c/o David van Ooijen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://www.lgs-japan.org/ ***************************************** >I went to the Nostalgia site to check out the possibility of obtaining >Toyohiko Satoh's "Weichenberger" CD and discovered it cost 25 Euros. That's >$30.40 US! Unless there are 2 CDs involved, this seems a little steep to >me. We are not going to increase the market for lute music by pricing a >significant portion of the existing market out of the market. Just a >thought. > > All the Best, > Gary Digman To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
