There's quite a few videos of Mr. Smith on YouTube. I was watching this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KARGC2SjWjg and it seemed to me that he was using the ring finger (a) quite a lot, even when he wasn't using 'm'. Is this common on the baroque lute?
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