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I was always the youngest person in the room and I would often end up being the donkey or the partially obscured lutist or a plant.

That was tricky, but nothing any skilled lutist couldn’t accomplish.

"He has called us flutists and lutists and 'cellists—" He stopped and held up a small instrument that he carried in his hand—"Do you know what this is?"

Mattheson, who wrote in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when the lute was still cultivated, said that a lutist of eighty years must have spent nearly sixty in tuning his instrument.

Keyed instruments, despite the remonstrances of the lutists, continued to advance toward their present supremacy.