Rob and List, first of all my sincere appologise for I pushed too far. The discussion went warm, but I did not felt under attack, only some points in our topic that I felt I need to defend were questioned. This way I felt, and therefore I should not write that Rob supposed I should not make my points here. I have no excuse for that.
But I do feel honestly that MY experience was too little to make such extensive comments on the old technique of the right hand. I have at the moment some troubles with mail client, I have to wait 20 minutes for a new window to appear, so I am sorry for not quoting, but you wrote something like "why people who have two months of experience do reject the technique". First, this was certainly a general statement, and not directed against me; but it forced me to rethink my attitude. Well, if I rejected the technique, I have rejected it for myself, and this does not mean that it is useless. At least we know, and this is a historic fact we try to deal with, it was working for Sor. > I repeat that it took Chris Wilson six years to stop playing the lute > like a > guitar, I do esteem Chris Wilson very much. I think he is a great musician and his statements should always be taken into account. I started to think now, and hope you would help me here, if this is somehow related with the fact that lute has double courses, and guitar is single strung (except for baroque and earlier models of course)? > If you think > Sor's > technique is basic, then we both have a different understanding of what > he > is talking about. This is possible. In case of movements description there is always a room for different understanding; perhaps we would get closer in our opinions if we had a chance to meet in person and be able to actually show things one another. Untill that happy day we have to rely on writings. I have read Sor in English translation and I am not native speaker of English nor of Spanish. This opens a room not only for different interpretation but also for mis-interpretation. > I can assure you that lutenists' LF usage can be very flexible! [...] I never said that it is not; I just understood that Sor's is even more flexible; or at least that his approach is different from that of the lutenist's. I do not know if this conclusion was generally accepted by all of us or is it just what I was able to draw from discussion and this was too strong a statement? Best regards Krzysztof ---------------------------------------------------- Wejd¼ na strone: Halloween.wp.pl i WYGRAJ "czarci" rejs dla siebie i osoby towarzysz±cej! Wyruszycie w podró¿ nowym promem Stena Line! Stañ oko w oko z duchami i zobacz kto jest lepszy - Kliknij: http://klik.wp.pl/?adr=www.halloween.wp.pl&sid=535 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
