Is it a Baroque or a Renaissance string? Is it a thumb under or a thumb out string? Does it warble? Does it sing? We need no lute, It's the whole damn thing!
>The person at the postal window had a difficult time finding the proper >code, so I sincerely hope it gets there. I clearly marked on the customs >note that it is a "musical string". She looked inside the envelope at it >in its package, and asked where the string was. I thought she could not >see it, so I showed her again, the string. She then asked, "How does it >make music? How do you turn it on?" It is a hilarious that some are so >accustomed to electronic gadgetry, that they do not understand what a >musical string is. > >ed > > > > > > -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html