Tuesday, 03 November, 2009

1. By Curtis. Comment posted 03-Nov-2009 @01:05pm:

   That's a lute, Newt.
2. By J-Walk. Comment posted 03-Nov-2009 @01:38pm:

   One angel's lute is another angel's banjo. You're just trying to deprive me of the pleasure of spotting a banjo in a cathedral.
3. By wormpicker. Comment posted 03-Nov-2009 @01:48pm:

   Dang if that's not one of Bisbo's mountain banjos!
4. By b83. Comment posted 03-Nov-2009 @01:48pm:

   I believe that's your banjo in NA Bay 6, upper left.
5. By J-Walk. Comment posted 03-Nov-2009 @01:54pm:

   NA Bay 6 is indeed the home of the sacred banjo. I don't know how I missed it.
6. By Curtis. Comment posted 03-Nov-2009 @02:14pm:

   You're just trying to deprive me of the pleasure of spotting a banjo in a cathedral.

   
   
   True that, but I still maintain you don't know your rundlaute from a hole in the ground.
7. By Curtis. Comment posted 03-Nov-2009 @02:18pm:

   Actually, I see now the miracle of the banjo. I'm sorry I was prejudiced against your insightful vision.
8. By 12-stringer. Comment posted 03-Nov-2009 @02:32pm:

   Lute or banjo, clawhammer remains clawhammer.
   
   Some interesting strumming style(s) being exhibited by the duo in NTW 1 … but I can't decipher the chord being played by the one on the left (the one on the right is doing harmonics).
9. By Klaus. Comment posted 03-Nov-2009 @03:32pm:

   Watch out John - it might be a carefully plotted ruse by the church to get you back in the fold!
10. By MAPLE LEAF. Comment posted 03-Nov-2009 @07:06pm:

    In what period of time were the largest number of Gothic stained glass artists actively working?
11. By J-Walk. Comment posted 03-Nov-2009 @07:37pm:

    In what period of time were the largest number of Gothic stained glass artists actively working?

    
    
    Just a wild guess, but I'd say 1425-1466 were pretty damn good years for Goth stained glass pros. It would have been better if they had an Internet for advertising.
12. By MAPLE LEAF. Comment posted 03-Nov-2009 @10:50pm:

    Nope.
    
    With several hundred years worth of Gothic stained glass windows in place and deteriorating, there are more crafts people and artisans involved in their maintainable and restoration right now than were ever involved at one time in their creation.
13. By Curtis. Comment posted 04-Nov-2009 @08:10am:

    I'd say 1425-1466 were pretty damn good years for Goth stained glass pros.

    
    
    The panel avec banjo was made in 1849 according to the site. That's what led me to believing J-Walk's insightful banjo vision and denouncing my own dismissive, vile, mean and immoral angels with banjos prejudice.
14. By Bisbonian. Comment posted 04-Nov-2009 @12:40pm:

    Dang if that's not one of Bisbo's mountain banjos!

    
    It is. I was last in the Norwich Cathedral in 1989. Sold 'em a banjo.

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