Yes, Joe, we are now legends in our own memories- but we sure had fun back when we were young, dumb, arrogant & innocent.
Honestly, David, hard to say. I will always treasure the memory of royally pissing off Stan Buetons at an ancient LSA seminar by playing my newly acquired thumb-under technique as if it was a brand-new toy; like a 17-year old weight lifter on his first dose of steroids. -Dan >OK Guilty as charged! I play worse. I find that the older I get - the faster >I was. > >Joseph Mayes > > >On 2/3/09 1:55 PM, "David Tayler" <vidan...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> Players getting better: >> They are better at everything. >> One can of course argue that they are getting worse, or, even worse, >> staying exactly the same--those would seem to be the options-- >> but I have watched the lute scene now for forty years, and we have >> come a long way, we play better, have better musical training, read >> continuo, have better instruments and techniques, understand >> style--not to say there is not room for improvement >> (warning--chart will follow) >> When I was playing in the late sixties, there were few or none >> continuo players, thumb under players, intruments were pretty bad. >> There were some VERY highly trained musicians, but only a very few. >> And so on. >> But every year, improvements. The improvements did not keep pace with >> recorder & keyboard--the recorder players really mastered original >> notation, artoculation, and ornamentation--but gradual, visible, >> audible improvements. >> Hey--who here plays worse, come on, fess up old timers! > > dt -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
