You can do one in three, three in ten. Depends on how much you want to practice. dt
At 03:43 AM 2/6/2009, you wrote: > I've been bothered by the charge of dilettantism (someone who "prefers > diversity to virtuosity") which was raised on this list recently. How > many different instruments is it possible to play to a high > professional standard? One? Two? And how many do most lutenists try > to play? Four? Eight? And the differences are not trivial: sizes, > playing techniques, tunings, repertoire, notation... > Hans Keller once wrote an essay denouncing Phoney Professions, one of > which was the Viola Player. Phoney, because playing the viola is so > similar to playing the violin that specialist viola players shouldn't > need to exist. Yet they persist. The string player's quest for the > highest possible standard on his/her instrument trumps Keller's logic. > Are we in the lute world systematically harming our playing standards, > even the reputation of our instrument, by spreading ourselves too > thin? Wouldn't we do better to specialise? > Peter > (lute, theorbo, classical guitar, baroque guitar, ocarina...) > -- > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
