At 05:35 AM 10/12/2005, Rob MacKillop wrote: >I can't remember if I signed up to this list or not. Is it just sleeping? >Have we exhausted the topic? > >Here's a question. I'm interested in the influence of baroque guitar >techniques on early classical guitar. Sor mentions the use of placing the >right hand little finger on the soundboard when his thumb moves over to the >treble strings (presumably when playing thumb/index passages). Moretti >avoids the third finger (like Sor) which makes me feel he too has his little >finger on the soundboard. And there is a drawing of Regondi (hardly early >CG) with a thimble-like contraption on his little finger, which touches the >soundboard. > >Is there other evidence of this practice? I'm not at all interested in >discussions about whether it is a good technique or not...If it was good >enough for Sor, then it is good enough for Sor.
Don't _all_ those various versions of the image to open the Carcassi method feature a pinky plant? It seems to me the famous image of Aguado looks to have him with his pinky firmly planted on the bridge. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
