On Mar 30, 2007, at 6:41 AM, gary digman wrote: > My point is not that he is good, in your girlfriend's sense of the > term, but that he is popular, more popular than your girlfriend or > I will ever be, and he is using that popularity to introduce a > "wider audience" to the lute which is what so many on this list say > they want.
It's certainly true that Sting has brought the lute to a wider audience, but I wonder how much of that audience will even remember the lute a year from now. On two occasions in the last two months I've heard Sting and his lute described over the media as "Sting and his "f--king lute." Quite possibly the whole Labyrinth thing is beginning to bore people... Sting has created a short-lived sort of parallel universe in which a lute is "that thing that Sting plays." IMO the lute world (or, as our Exhalted Empress would put it: "the known lute world" ;-)) will continue on its course as if Sting never existed. David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rastallmusic.com -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
