Nigel also passes his right hand fingertips through his mouth just before he starts playing. At least he did years ago; I haven’t seen him in a while.
> On Dec 23, 2015, at 7:32 PM, Dan Winheld <dwinh...@lmi.net> wrote: > > I have played lutes of all kinds since 1966, (and guitar for 9 years prior) > and I must say I have NEVER heard of such practices! The only thing remotely > connected that comes to my mind is something Besard wrote (English > translation in the "Varietie...") about some students "anointing their > fingers with Oyle of Tartar..." but for increasing joint flexibility, nothing > to do with touch. Nigel North had been in the habit of stalking his students > with a fine emery board, grabbing their right hands smoothing out coarse > fingertips. He jumped me in this fashion once about 15 years ago at a SFEMS > or LSA seminar. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
