European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 05, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Music men one plays a too by Connie Grzelka associated press ome people might say Paulo Dette is a musical Genius. Others might say he s a Little crackers. After All How Many 16 year old kids want 16th Century instruments and haunt the museums of Europe in search of them. Odette started out like a Normal kid Uxa musically inclined Ohio family taking up Rock guitar at 12. But that did t hold his attention for Long. He began classical guitar studies at is and won a Young musicians contest sponsored by the Columbu symphony six months later. He also played Lute pieces on the  they did t make sense. The music was right but the tone color was wrong so at age 16, he went off to Munich to find a craftsman who would make custom built Lute. He not Only got his Lute but found and eventually studied under some of Europe s master teachers Cut some records and earned a reputation As skilled musician. After digging up a Lute o Dette examined some 16th Century musical treatises and says he discovered that us fingerboard technique was More suited to the Lite than the guitar. He reviewed manuscripts written i italian German latin and English picked his Way through cryptic musical notes recorded in late 15th-Century Vene Tian dialect and pored Over copies of paint Ings tapestries and other period visuals to reconstruct the exact Lute  Dette s search for authenticity soon revealed this you can t just sit Down and play the Lute. It requires a great Deal of linguistic historic and Pale graphic As Well As Early musical composition technique All of which you have to pick up on your own be cause such courses Are not  Dette now 23, traded College for 3vi years of Lute studies at the Scola  in Basel. Switzerland. Aside from All this Lute lore. O Dett adds that More than 40 types of Lute Are needed to play the music composed before1700. The Sweet Wooding lightweight instruments come in models ranging from 11 to 28 strings and run fro about two to six feet Long. A custom Lute can Cost from11,200 to $2,500, depending on specifications 0 Dette says. How has today s Job Market treated the talented Lut Enist since the Lute declined in popularity Early in the 18th Century when it was Over musician Paul o Dette you just can t sit Down and play the  shadowed by the guitar there Haven t  Luteal its around. But Over the last several years there s been a growing in Terest in Renaissance and elizabethan musical  o Dette found that his Job prospects were pretty Good. He has his own Elizabe than musical group called Swanne Alley and teaches at the University of Roches Ter s Eastman school of music. He also is director of the school s collegium Musi cum which is devoted to the study and performance of music that dates before 1700. By summer s end o Dette will add five new Lutes to us collection of seven. The five new instruments Nowon order from an oud Karpel hol land Luther have been on a waiting list since 1974. You have to know where the original instruments Are before placing an order says o Dette who says that 400year-old Lutes tucked away in museums throughout Europe serve As his models. He goes to the museum requests that the instruments be removed from their cases and examines them for details of construction. I might make suggestions for changes but the sound must be the  his Lute maker takes an x Ray of the instrument and makes a drawing which he uses during the four to six weeks it takes to construct a Lute. As a musical Purist o Dette says he does t like to interchange instruments when the score specifies a particular  example a 17th-Century French piece requires a different Lute than the 16th-Cen-Tury English number. That s Why he says he needs 40 Lutes. And one by . Apple or. New York times bearded Irish flute player of Al things is the new wonderland of the Brit ish musical  name is James Galway. A Smallman 5 feet 4 inches tall he has merry eyes that Dart restlessly from left to right As he talk Sand plays. Watching him at work is like watching reincarnation of pan the mischievous greek god of Fertility who played the Syrinx a precursor of the flute during his gambol. Flute players or. More elegantly flautist usually spend their careers buried in the Wood wind sections of orchestras their anonymity interrupted Only by an occasional passage such As the one in Beethoven s pastoral symphony where their Trilling sounds dance above the ensemble. Jean Pierre  French virtuoso is a exception Herbie Mann who plays jazz flute is another. But neither could be described As a show Biz phenomenon and that is what 37-year-old James Galway has become less than two years after abandoning the Security of his first chair in the Berlin philharmonic. He has played to nothing but packed houses during the current British tour. He sold More than 75,000 records last year the vast majority in Britain where 5,000 is considered a Good Sale for a classical record. He is a regular guest on television talks shows. He has single hand edly doubled the Sale of flutes Here. And he has earned the ultimate pop culture accolade James Galway to shirts were a big item in London last  this year the irishman will make his first visit to North America where Ria is just beginning to introduce his recordings. He will give a number of concerts in Canada an make promotional appearances in the United states. Plays a a his first american concerts will follow in july 1978in los Angeles Washington and Chicago and at the mostly Mozart festival in a very Fisher Hall. Part of Galway s popularity stems no doubt from Bis strikingly uns Tuffy personality the legacy of an Ulster boyhood in a neighbourhood where everyone played  his father a shipyard worker played he flute Asa Hobby As did his Grandfather several members of the family including Young Jimmy played in the Belfast drum and Fife band. He has a passion to communicate which prompts him to play things like " flight of the Bumblebee and Hora staccato for Young audiences and on television. You play perpetual motion for the kids then Boom into Bach and Mozart and you have them. They love it but they would t have come without the showy stuff on the program said Galway. On the platform be is constantly in motion swaying with the music resting his w.50018 Karat Gold flute on us shoulder like a Rifle smiling frowning. All of which is not to suggest that Galway Lack substance As a musician. He produces the most improbable showers of notes Birdlike in the upper Register sweetly liquid in the lower. He has a Range of three and a half octaves from alow a Flat to a High of half an octave More than most players. On Long sustained notes where most ten to lose their breath and therefore purity of tone he is  London critics who perhaps have available for their delectation More serious music of More varieties than critics anywhere else have pulled out All the  amid the most torrential cascades of notes Arthur Jacobs wrote recently in the financial times he presumably lakes breath but with such Well concealed Art that you suspect divine dispensation from such Ordinary physical  sunday june 5, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 11