On Mar 25, 2012, at 9:09 AM, William Samson wrote: > Even subtly inauthentic technique (like > thumb-inside for baroque lute, or pinky too far from the bridge) can > cause the more sensitive souls among us to take to a darkened room and > suck our thumbs.
Unless you can show some proof that no lute player in the 1700's ever played with thumb inside the fingers and there was only one acceptable right-hand location, your thumb is taking some unnecessary abuse. Of course, your thumb may enjoy getting sucked, but that's really none of my business. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
