On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:43:10 -0400, Geoff Gaherty wrote > On 25/09/13 3:34 PM, Dan Winheld wrote: > > Polar opposite to Jazz electric guitarists, who seemed to me to avoid > > open strings as much as possible. > > The same is true of gamba players, who avoid open strings because of > their different tone.
Is this a (documented) historic practise? Or something taken over from Cello playing? I always thought this (avoidance of open strings) was a result of the change to metal strings during the first decades of the 20th century. I can't find any indication of open string avoidance in Hume or the late German Gamba tablatures (thats the tab stuff I've at hand right now) Cheers, RalfD To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
