Tadeusz Czechak [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
1.It is still a proverb in Poland , but not commonly used , as now only a
few poeple know who was Bakfark . You may hear it rather from the poeple
involved with literature , poetry, culture etc.
Yes, indeed. I asked a Polish friend of mine. She is a
Many thanks to all who responded to my question.
Since the time I posted my query about early quotes on Bakfark I made a trip to Poland
(Warsaw and Krakow) this past weekend and even performed a lute recital at the Muzeum
Narodowe w Warszawa and enjoyed including Bakfark in the program. I left
]; Tadeusz Czechak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: Bakfark
Dear Tadeusz,
Ever since this topic occured a few weeks ago on Lutenet, I tried to find
a
native Polish speaker to approve or disapprove my memory:
The wife of a friend
This is a methaphore , commonly used in apparent , but mistaken meaning .
Jan Kochanowski , Polish poet , 16th cent in his epigram told the following
story
A guy asked very much to spend the night with married lady , who didn't want
him . To explain him why she does'n want , lady invites him to
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Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: Bakfark
This is a methaphore , commonly used in apparent , but mistaken meaning .
Jan Kochanowski , Polish poet , 16th cent in his epigram told the
following
story
A guy asked very much
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Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: Bakfark
This is a methaphore , commonly used in apparent , but mistaken meaning .
Jan Kochanowski , Polish poet , 16th cent in his epigram told the
following
story
A guy asked very much
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a quote that goes something like:
nobody should play the lute after Bakfark
Obviously this means that Bakfark had abnormally oily
or smelly hands. (Don't use that lute - Bakfark just
played it.) We just need to decide whether it was
because of an
cleanliness.
As far as his music is concerned it is particularly difficult with some very
painful bar chords.
Vance Wood.
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Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: Bakfark
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Haven't heard this of Bakfark, but on a famous post-mortem-engraving of Weiss the
inscription reads Es soll nur Sylvius die Laute spielen (Sylvius alone shall play the
lute), a quote from a poem.
Also, I've somewhere read a description of Count Logy's final hour, when Logy ordered
all of his
