On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:50:01 +0200, David van Ooijen wrote > On 25 September 2013 23:43, Geoff Gaherty <[1]ge...@gaherty.ca> 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. > > Joe Pass in one of his video lessons gives the advice to avoid > keys with too many many open strings: all those droning (bass) > strings will make the audience sleepy. David
Yes, I always try to avid open bass strings ... esp. on theorbo. Sorry, couldn't resist ;-) Cheers, RalfD To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
