In einer eMail vom 09.10.2006 11:49:29 Westeurop=E4ische Normalzeit schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Edin is an specialized lutenist (one of the best around, I should add), and > > Sting knows about Dowland (and about singing) as much as many so called > professional singers. > These are all very vague terms, what is a specialized lutenist and when you say sting knows about Dowland, I would say he knowledge is mot very deep. In the booklet to the CD (yes I have heard it and it is "Junk") he says that Dowland wrote so many verses for Come again. Well if he would have had a look at a facsilile he would have seen that the last 4 verses are an alternate text and not to be sung with the first two. I think Edin is a specialised lutenist, he seems to have specialised in being as unauthentic as possible. Another thing I know know from a secure source that he often uses single strung archlutes with a very high tension. There is also a video of him using such an instrument in the recording session. Just a last word I think anyone can use any instrument they want and play how they want, but when they go around saying they play authentic instruments and base their playing on research that is so faulty then this is not being "wild", "experimental" or "open-minded" it is just selling something under false name. For a project that shuns the early music movement ability to know anything about how the music may have sound it is extrordinary how many statements they make about how "authentic" theor performances are. Just a thought, lute playing was always an expensive thing, but have pity on the sting fans who want to play the lute, they now have to have a PA system and effects board to get the sound of the CD. But they at least save money on strings, back to the old pyramid days and you only need half of them! Mark -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
