Jan Akkerman

[jj]

Mentally, yes.

[jj]

Dickhead.

[Pervert]

I saw Sting and another guy on Studio 60 some weeks back doing a version of Fields Of Gold with two lutes, and thought, "Forget the piano, violin, guitar, flute and saxophone, THAT'S the instrument I wish I could play."

[jj]

This is why I love 13-17th c. music so much.
.... hearing Haydn layed on the replica instruments started me off.....

The best, though: Purcell.
Had Dido and Aeneas on tonite. Wunnerful.

[Pervert]

It's a beautifully rich sounding instrument. I'm surprised it's not more widely played.

[jj]

I can play guitar/mandolin like a monkey with a chronic disability.
But a lute? never.

[Pervert]

Maybe you'll enter your own Groundhog Day and find yourself handilyplaced with a lute maestro. After ten thousand years of the same day, well, you never know.

That's the only way I'll ever manage to learn an instrument.

[middle_aged_dutchman]

Why do you suppose he is Jewish? His name does not sound Jewish at all. Dutch Jews are called Cohen, Schwartz, Polak, Hamburger or Van Praag. 'Akkerman' means 'farmer'. Until the 19th century Jews were not even allowed to be farmers.

[Sam Slater]

Lol....it didn't matter what his name sounded like, nor important if he was Jewish or not. I was just on the wind-up.