I'm sure there will be better documented replies, but I think the many visual images of people playing music informally outdoors would indicate that, at least as an idea, they would have thought fairly highly of it.
I suspect from my own personal anecdotal evidence, though, that the difficulties of dealing with weather, insects, and trying to get comfortable sitting on steps and walls, not to mention difficulties of being heard, might have affected what they thought of the actuality. Again, best to all. C. >>> Herbert Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/25/2008 5:46 PM >>> In the past year or two, steel-string acoustic guitarists have begun playing at night on the Univ of Texas campus, sitting on various steps and walls. Do we have any way to guess what our historical lutenist predecessors would have thought of performing so informally? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
