"Peter Nightingale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Dear list, > > Is there a rationale for Piccinini's suggestion that chords, e.g. like > this > --- > -0- > --- > -3- > -2- > -0- > be played by striking the courses in the order 5/p, 2/i ,1/m, 3/i. > > Then there also is the other strange thing in his instructions. I wonder, > did he loose his ring finger in a duel? After acknowledging in passing > that finger's existence --maybe only in others?-- he seems to completely > ignore it.
No idea about why this is so, but you can find the same with French baroque lutenists. -- Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
