The quid non sentit amor is the one I was thinking of http://emblems.let.uu.nl/c1627_facsimile.html?thumb=tekst254&emblem=43
Lefty or reversi? 1627 or therabouts my Dutch is rusty. Use the ZOOM button at the bottom to see the OUD like plectrum. Ooops there is English too--not very helpful. dt >I still contend there may have been a few to many left-handed lute players: >perhaps as broadly represented as within the population at large, perhaps >even more so. Nobody knows. Being right-handed and fretting with the left >hand are not a perfect corollaries. It also is not mandatory for lefties to >place the neck of a stringed instrument in their right hand. I don't, I >never have, and I was never discouraged from expressing my inherent >sinistral tendencies. I also don't dictate to my sinistral clan that my way >(the standard way) is the only way. Make it work however you can. > >Best, >Eugene > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Tayler [mailto:vidan...@sbcglobal.net] > > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 3:18 PM > > To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu > > Subject: [LUTE] Re: RH position, was: Dilettantism > > > > Obviously, because there were no lefty lute players. Except for > > Leonardo da Vinci. > > There are some nice lefty lute player images in the fabulous emblem > > collection that was posted here recently. > > dt > > > > > > At 04:25 AM 2/9/2009, you wrote: > > >On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jean-Marie Poirier > > ><jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > > > > May I remind all of you interested in that thread on hand > > > position, that I had put up a couple of web pages with iconographical > > > > > > >http://le.luth.free.fr/ > > > > > >Nice pages, and not a lefty in sight! > > > > > >David > > > > > >-- > > >******************************* > > >David van Ooijen > > >davidvanooi...@gmail.com > > >www.davidvanooijen.nl > > >******************************* > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
