> makes most sense if you "glue" the pinky on the soundboard because it's > much > easier to obtain a stable position of the right hand.
Indeed, as opposed to my guitar habit of keeping 'a' in touch with the first string. > A look into guitar methods of the early 19th century also gives hint: Sor > has > advoated a similar technique and he is said to have a RH-Technique in > "lute-tradition". That is an oversimplification, I think, but he does go into detail how angle of fingers and omission of ring-finger go together. Sor used no nails, and I believe 19th century guitarists with nails had a different hand position (and used their ring finger more). But this is more a subject for another list. David To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
