Thanks for these insights Chris.
Well said, and I understand where these 
ideas come from.
  I'm just saying that pie makers aren't picky 
about who buys and eats their wares.  They 
are probably happy for anybody to buy and 
consume their pies.  And a lot of those pie 
consumers may not have the faintest idea 
how to make a good pie, and the pie makers 
probably don't want them to bother trying to 
make a pie correctly.
  Still, it benefits the pie makers to have these 
people buying and consuming their pies.
  Tom

Tom,

    I am by no means opposed to the idea of reaching out to other
    groups, but I have to say I am very skeptical about the SCA. By
    including the word "anachronism" in the title of the organization,
    they say quite openly that they are all about intentional
    historical inaccuracy. Meanwhile, we are about being "historically
    informed." Despite some (very) superficial similarities, then, our
    groups are really after two diametrically opposed goals.

     Then there's the double issue of the word "Creative" in their
     name. Lordy, we've got people expostulating on the size of the
     proper theorbo, what stringing one is permitted to use on a
     baroque guitar, and how all competent musicians must be able to
     sight read plainchant neumes backwards and upside down on the
     tromba marina while transposing accurately by within 2 cents and
     simultaneously gargling the contra tenor from the Sanctus of
     DuFay's "Missa L'homme Arme" in augmentation. So, in other words,
     creativity is most unwelcome here.

Chris

Dr. Christopher Wilke D.M.A.
Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer
www.christopherwilke.com

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On Sun, 8/11/13, t...@heartistrymusic.com <t...@heartistrymusic.com>
wrote:

 Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness
 To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
 Date: Sunday, August 11, 2013, 11:58 AM

    NYC Medieval
 Festival at Fort Tryon was originally run by the history

    department of Hunter College of CUNY, very
 nicely too. Until SCA took

    over...... RT

    Are we trying creatively to increase
 general audience for lute music
    here,

    or are we practicing exclusivity? I'm
 looking at SCA and Ren Faires
    solely

    as a group of potential music buyers. Why
 not encourage the interest
    and

    point it in the right direction?

    Tom

    On 8/11/2013 11:08 AM, Geoff Gaherty
 wrote:

    > On 11/08/13 9:41 AM, Ron Fletcher
 wrote:

    >> My main point is that true
 historical re-enactment is

    >> not fantasy, but a desire to
 generate public awareness of our great

    >> heritage.

    >

    > For a number of years, I was music
 director for Poculi Ludiquae

    > Societas, the medieval drama society
 at the University of Toronto's

    > Institute of Medieval Studies during
 the 1980s:

    >

    > http://groups.chass.utoronto.ca/plspls/

    >

    > We were committed to meticulous
 historical research as well as

    > lively performances.  My job was
 to select music appropriate to the

    > time and culture of the plays being
 performed, and to provide

    > suitable musicians to perform
 it.  We worked in very close

    > association with the professional
 early music performers in Toronto,

    > to everyone's mutual benefit.

    >

    > We used to cringe whenever anyone
 mentioned the Society for Creative

    > Anachronism!

    >

    > Geoff

    >

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    Heartistry Music

    http://www.heartistrymusic.com/artists/tom.html

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    Ashland, WI  54806

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