Daniel, One thing that may be helping and is often overlooked is the thicker, half-round neck shape. When I play a friend's 8-c nowadays that throws off my sense of where my left fingers are in relation to my thumb as much as anything else.
Sean On Feb 18, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Daniel Shoskes wrote: > So, I'm glad that people who have 6 course lutes are thrilled with > their instruments. What I don't fully understand is why the 6 course > literature is "so much easier" to play on a 6 course lute. I have an > 8 course that I love: great sound, fits my hands well, guitarists > look at it and are freaked out by how many strings there are (until I > bring out my 13 course!). My only difficulty in playing early 6 > course music is some of the left hand stretches. But wouldn't the > solution to that problem be a shorter string length rather than fewer > courses? What are the other advantages people find from their 6 > course lutes that is missing from their 8 course lutes (of equal > quality)? > > DS > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
