Mark Wheeler wrote: >> Roman has carved his latest piece of dogma onto the wikipedia site. >> >> "The most important living archlute players are Edin Karamazov and >> Luca >> Pianca (the founder of Il Giardino Armonico), who predominantly play >> archlutes, and Paolo Cherici, Massimo Lonardi, Luciano Contini, Paul >> O'Dette, Jakob >> Lindberg and Nigel North who use archlutes extensively." >> >> The most important sounds to me like a point of view. Funny how Paul, >> Jacob and Nigel, get placed last.
It's not at all clear what "important" means here. Influential? Imitated? Admired? Among the public? Among other players? Is this a subjective rating of who the best players are? Some of these names are unfamiliar even to many readers of this list; wouldn't that tend to detract from their "importance," whatever it means? Roman wrote: > Paul is lurking on this list. Maybe he would tell us the exact > percentage of > the archlute in his activities. He needs both hands for playing, and thus would be unable to operate a stopwatch and calculator while writing down entries in his minutes-played log, even if he were so inclined. The proportion of time spent playing the instrument seems like an odd measure of "importance," no matter how the term is defined. I could play the archlute every waking moment of my life and still be of no particular importance in the archlute world, except perhaps as an embarrassment. HP To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
