From what I have been reading over the years about this issue I am not so
sure the use of the plectrum as the reason for the thumb under is anything
more than supposition, especially when one considers how the fingers of the
right hand strike the strings more efficiently from that wrist position than
with that assumed by many Guitarists, coming at the Lute for the first time.
I know, I have been there.
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: RH on the bridge?
On Sat, Jan 5, 2008, vance wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
I know that this must be a bit off topic but beside the issue of
accessing
the additional bases as a criteria for thumb out one has to ask why was
thumb in used in the first place, especially when you consider how the
thumb
and second finger sometimes interfere with each other?
I understood that it was because of the influence of plectrum play, which
has strong (down) strokes, weak (up) strokes, taking advantage of the
weight of the arm.
When the plectrum is discarded in favor of fingers, one gains the ability
to arpeggiate and play lines of polyphony in ensemble leaving harmony to
emerge from the ensembles efforts; but the ear will also have an
apreciation and expectation of the old strong/weak accentuation; and the
player will have a well developed sense of how to give that with the arm.
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