Dear b-lutenists, about using the thumb: there are many places in the (French) baroque lute music, where the thumb is used on the 2nd string - I have not met any sign of its use on 1st, though. Anyhow the p-i-p-i pattern on one course/string is understandable much more rare in b-lute repertoire than in the 16th century stuff. I happened to meet an example of p-i-p on the 5th course in ms. Barbe, "L'Immortelle du V. Gautier", p. 2, system 5, first bar:
_____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _________c___________________ _____a___..__d____c'___a_____ _____._______.____|____._____ a I find this quite interesting! Have you found more "pipipi" on 5th (or even 6th) in baroque lute tabulatures? Also higher (and lower?) courses count in this contest! ;-) Best, Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
