At 02:38 AM 10/18/2005, Rob MacKillop wrote: >I'm a little surprised at people who try pinkie playing for a either a few >minutes or as much as a couple of months and then reject it.
I don't feel too bad in rejecting it. I will never be the kind of musician who does not need to keep the day job. As much as I love music, the time to which I can commit to it is much slimmer than I would prefer. If I decide to spend some of my time with 19th-c. guitars, I feel justified enough in that there were plenty of 19th-c. guitarists who also elected to not brace the pinkie. I would bet some of them even played Sor's music with their hands free of the soundboard. I would argue that investing personal conviction and a degree of confidence in a selected, historic approach is as important as the approach itself. >This topic seems to keep being dragged into debate about whether it is a >good technique or not. I haven't perceived that here. That I have not devoted my time to the technique shouldn't be taken to imply that I am dismissing it as inferior; it just isn't what I do. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
