It is in the Chanterelle edition.
> I saw the Regondi picture in an edition of his studies oe selected > facsimiles about ten years ago. Chanterelle? Orphee Editions? Can't remember > now... He was young at that time, a teenager I guess. He was at the age of 8. Younger than we were when we started... The picture says: 'Ai-je bien joue?....' Sor pinkie, indeed! Funny. > The 'Sor pinkie' is not always too well understood, nowadays. In the English translation (1830) of his Methode we can read (on p. 33): 'Sometimes I employ the little finger, pressing it perpendicularly on the sounding-board below the first string, but take care to raise it as soon as it ceases to be necessary. The necessity for that support arises from passages requiring great velocity of the thumb to pass from base notes to those of an intermediate part, whilst the first and second fingers are occupied in completing the fraction of the measure in triplets, or otherwise, when I could never be certain of keeping my fingers exactly opposite their respective strings: the little finger then retains my whole hand in position, and I have only to attend to the motions of the thumb; but, as soon as my hand can properly keep its position without that support, I cease to use it, in order that the elevation of the lower part of the hand may allow me to attack the strings with the fingers curved the least possible.' The last part makes clear that his position probably was quite different from what most lutenists do. Lex To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
