On 09/09/13 8:00 AM, Mathias Rösel wrote:
Hans Newsidler has no barre in his tablatures. In the 1st part of his 1536 print, he offers fingerings that would imply forefinger b2, middle b3, ring c4, little d5 for this chord.
He must have had small fingers to manage that. Like the others, I've always used a partial barre with my index finger on the first fret.
Geoff -- Geoff Gaherty Foxmead Observatory Coldwater, Ontario, Canada http://www.gaherty.ca http://starrynightskyevents.blogspot.com/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
