--- Krzysztof Komarnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a. placing pinkie on the belly is an error today...
> There is much tension created this way, but the hand > is steady (nothing can move it, nor they can move it > themselves). We have a lot of work ahead... > b. it makes me think that, contrary to my previus > opinion, Renoir draw his picture from the real > model, and had an eye for detail. However, as I said > before, the picture is not an example of preservatin > of the pinkie-on-the-belly technique. It rather > depicts the erroneous way of playing connected with > the decline of guitar playing in second half of 19th > century. it's possible that hands - and the bodies attached to them - have become larger over the past hundred years or so and that smaller hands don't need the steadying influence of a firmly planted pinkie but i don't agree about declining standards of modern guitar playing or that the pinky plant is an indication of it. in my case - without someone telling me it was wrong - the pinky shot out there instinctively, right at the start. respectfully - bill "and thus i made...a small vihuela from the shell of a creepy crawly..." - Don Gonzalo de Guerrero (1512), "Historias de la Conquista del Mayab" by Fra Joseph of San Buenaventura. go to: http://www.charango.cl/paginas/quieninvento.htm ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
