What about this picture from 1601 (by Philippe Galle) : http://le.luth.free.fr/lefties.htm When in the same picture you can see an right-handed player and a left-handed one, I suppose it adds up to admitting that lefties did exist, even in a very small proportion, just like now. And I don't really buy the "moral" justification to the representation of a lefty player...
Best, Jean-Marie, one rather happy lefty in the oppressed minority ;-))) ======= 09-02-2009 21:45:56 ======= > >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 > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. >Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr http://poirierjm.free.fr 09-02-2009
