Douglas  E. Miller   Sat, 08 Jan 2000 13:03:52 -0500
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I am 50 years old, an applied scientist working at a research lab in
southwestern Connecticut.

I sing and perform with a serious amateur early-music octet (The Everyman
Guild - now, by the way, seeking a tenor and an alto). I acquired my
8-course L. K. Brown lute after attending the Amherst Early Music week in
1996 & having an introduction to the instrument from David Taylor. I have
played it (rather naively, I'm afraid) as vocal accompaniment in Everyman
Guild concerts and in a local production of Bartholomew Fair (as
Nightingale, the ballad-monger, of course). I am probably the perfect bad
example, since I have had few lessons, can't yet keep my thumb in, prefer
notated music to tablature, and generally have to think in terms of a base
line with chords in order to learn a piece.

Still, I love it.