I’m loathe to open up yet another contentious debate about performance practic, but isn’t “air” performance properly limited to performance without anything in the performer’s hands?
I’m not sure it addresses the question directly, but I think any inquiry has to start with the excellent “Air Lute” treatise by Steven Hendricks: http://thehendricks.net/?page_id=23 On Sep 19, 2014, at 10:45 PM, Franz Mechsner <franz.mechs...@gmx.de> wrote: > > There is a famous photo, well-known as "Marcel Proust Playing Air > Guitar".So people would not even recognize that he is obviously playing > an Air Lute! And on his knees, in adoration of the instrument! > http://www.retronaut.com/2012/07/marcel-proust-playing-air-guitar-on-a- > tennis-racket-c-1892/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
