Thanks Davids all - just trying to keep the discussion going lest the list revert to a state of torpor. Actually, if we 'reverse engineer' a lute sufficiently, we'll probably end up with a banjo. RA > Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:47:50 -0400 > To: davidvanooi...@gmail.com > CC: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > From: d_lu...@comcast.net > Subject: [LUTE] Re: What's the point to 'historical sound' > > "Lutes of mass distraction." Hah! I like that. > > I think Ron was objecting to the use of "lutespeak," which is a > particular form of double-talk peculiar to the lute community, where > such phraseology as "reverse engineering" has to be abstracted in > order to be understood. And thereby misunderstood. > > David - the one who "does it naturally." (More lutespeak...?) > > > On Jul 4, 2011, at 11:25 AM, David van Ooijen wrote: > > > On 4 July 2011 16:35, Ron Andrico <praelu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> David wrote: > >> > Ron's question, made relevant for the listers, freely > >> translates to > > .. > >> Just a minute, buddy. This kind of 'freely translated' > >> interpretation > >> of someone else's words has led to such disasters as the search for > >> weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as a justification for > >> attack, and > > > > I had a fun weekend on the lute list, and thank you all kindly for it, > > but don't remember bringing up world politics. Perhaps you are > > referring to the fact that occasionally I bring archlutes of mass > > distraction to Iran? It's a neighbouring country, full of friendly > > people playing tar and setar, no justification for attacking them. > > > >> the abstraction of the term 'reverse engineering' to justify the > >> invention of a new instrument to play old music. > > > > Perhaps you're mixing up Davids here. I do agree, there are too > > many of us. > > > > David - the lefty > > > > -- > > ******************************* > > David van Ooijen > > davidvanooi...@gmail.com > > www.davidvanooijen.nl > > ******************************* > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
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