Yes, it is. I've been there yesterday. There was only Lute Society stand,
Mimmo Peruffo's and one lute maker (David van Edwards pupil) displaying
student lutes. It would be a good opportunity to try Mimmo's loaded gut
basses except there was a terrible constant noise of the bagpipes being
played (or rather tried). So, to finish the day in a more possitive way I
bought "Lutes, viols & temperaments" by Mark Lindley at Brian Jordan's
stall, just to read on my way home that really the best thing to do for us
is to tune our lutes equal........Oh, my poor meantone tuned lutes, what
would they say if they could.
Anyway I had an impression that we (the lute world) are a little bit like
our instruments - gentle and quiet.
Shouldn't we be seen and heard a little bit more on such occasions?
Jaroslaw
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tayler" <vidan...@sbcglobal.net>
To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 5:05 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Greenwich festival
It's a shame considering they invented Greenwich Meantone.
dt
At 10:38 AM 11/12/2009, you wrote:
There's usually several lute luthiers exhibiting - and the Lute
Society have a stand. The year before last Jacob Heringman gave a
great recital - solo and duet with recorder. A lute masterclass would
be good idea - perhaps someone influential could make some
suggestions to the organisers...
Andrew
On 12 Nov 2009, at 18:17, JarosÅ,aw Lipski wrote:
> I've just checked the programm of Greenwich early music
> festival. It
> seems to be packed with lots of events - concerts, masterclasses,
> makers demonstration recitals, etc ( [1]http://tinyurl.com/
> ya5p4mh ).
> All early instruments are represented, however during the whole
> 3 days
> of activities there is no lute mentioned. Oh, sorry, there is
> the Oud
> maker demonstration recital, as that instrument seems to fit
> better the
> whole scenario for some organisers. Ok, we can survive, but my
> question
> is what is the popularity of our instrument?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
>
> All the best
>
>
>
> Jaroslaw
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