Dear Eric, (I'm sending this to the list as you probably intended) thank you for your remarks. Unlike you I up to now tried to have the same technically idea for both thumb in and out, a flexible endjoint. I'm a full-time guitar teacher and while my renaissance lute technique works sufficiently well I am not really satisfied with my no-nails thumb-out ability on the guitar (though it was a nightmare in the beginning), not to speak of the baroque lute. Just this evening I experimented again a bit and found an interesting way of combining fixed and flexible endjoint, but it's to late now (2.40), I will write more tomorrow.
Best regards, Stephan Am 18 Dec 2004 um 22:07 hat Eric Liefeld geschrieben: > Hi Stephan, > > Its worth noting, that though Nigel plays thumb-out, > he does not have nails... In fact, he sort has negative > nails. He told me that his nails would never have added > much anyway as they were not very strong. > > As for leaving the joint fixed. I think that works better for > thumb-out. I play both thumb-out and thumb-under... for > thumb-out I keep the joint fairly fixed... For thumb-under > I let it flex. > > Of course my meager technique is nothing remarkable. > > Best, > > Eric > > Stephan Olbertz wrote: > > >Oh yes, thank you! Apparently he leaves the end joint fixed, > >that is to say: it's not bent passively in the opposite > >direction of the stroke. > > > >Regards, > > > >Stephan > > > >Am 18 Dec 2004 um 9:37 hat Daniel F Heiman geschrieben: > > > > > > > >>Stephan: > >> > >>You can watch 6 seconds of Nigel North's right hand in action on the > >>LSA "Downloads" page (unfortunately no sound included). > >> > >>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/download/index.html#video > >> > >>Daniel Heiman > >> > >> > >> > <snip> > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
