Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po8.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA00988; Thu, 1 Oct 98 12:15:35 EDT Received: from xkey.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA22089; Thu, 1 Oct 98 12:15:35 EDT Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by xkey.com id JAA22454 for minstrel-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:02:07 -0700 Received: (from lindahl@localhost) by xkey.com id MAA22446; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:02:01 -0400 Message-Id: <199810011602.MAA22446@xkey.com> Subject: Re: minstrel: modern instruments To: yarrowp@mscd.edu Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:02:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Greg Lindahl" Cc: minstrel@pbm.com In-Reply-To: from "yarrowp@mscd.edu" at Oct 1, 98 08:57:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 616 Sender: owner-minstrel@rt.com Precedence: bulk > I suspect (though I don't play guitar) that your > guitar might make a better substitute for a lute or one of the early > ancestors of the guitar than it does for a harp. There's a discussion of this, and plastic and wood recorders, in the archive. And allow me to say that you can get better results from a new plastic recorder than a cheap wooden one: it's a simple matter of performance. Unless you have enough money to buy a _good_ wooden recorder, go plastic and spend your money on something else. -- gb p.s. the archive is visible from the minstrel homepage, http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/minstrel.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send email to majordomo@pbm.com containing the words "unsubscribe minstrel". If you are subscribed to the digest version, say "unsubscribe minstrel-digest". To contact a human about problems, send mail to owner-minstrel@pbm.com