On Mar 3, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Rob MacKillop wrote: > I think it would be a shame if we started to emulate classical guitar > pedagogy. Every year there are AMAZING guitarists coming out of these > institutions, far more than we ever hear about. There is no work for > 99.99per cent of them. Most of the ones I've heard sound like wannabe > David Russell's.
Well, there's nothing actually, y'know, wrong? with being able to play like David Russell; after all, the guy *can* play the paint off the walls! ;-) > I like the fact that every lute player sounds different. > The less > streamlining the better, IMHO. In Baroque lute, purely a personal preference, I do look for some amount of standardization. DR, to some extent playing the devil's advocate... [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html