Howard Posner wrote: > Herbert Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>According to my teacher, the lute thumb-out technique developed in the >>Baroque (post-Renaissance), as lutes acquired more courses (ie became >>wider), and had more complex bass lines. So you may very well see old >>paintings showing both types of technique. > > > It was already there in the 1500's, mostly in the South.
Says who? > One theory is that > it was part of vihuela technique, and worked its way into Italy and then > north. Whose theory? Any evidence apart from Spanish sources? > Dowland's conversion to thumb-out almost certainly occurred before > 1600. Any evidence? Almost certainly certainly means "perhaps"? As you certainly know the only "evidence" for Dowland's "conversion" is Sloane 1021. Rainer adS
