On Saturday, November 29, 2003, at 05:24 PM, Howard Posner wrote: > When I started playing lute, my teacher told me to spend a few weeks > playing > thumb-in simply to make my lute hand distinct from my guitar hand, to > impart > a physical understanding that the instruments were different and > required > different motions.
That was precisely my experience (and (I believe) with the same teacher). > I play > thumb-out now, but it was good advice, like nearly everything else she > told > me. My experience also! I'm playing thumb-out too nowadays, but I first had to learn the ways of the lute via the thumb-under technique. Regards, David Rastall
