The portuguese guitar I listened to, was played virtuoso, both melodic and chordal. And yes, I bet the performer had some thick callouses. I was surprised to se that he used thumb in technique. G
On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 8:51 PM, G. C. <[1]kalei...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Tristan, the Yamaha guitalele G1 looks like a miniature 6 string guitar and is nylon strung. I have small hands, so "La compagna" worked just fine, as well as Poulton #73 or a Bach prelude. I gut an annoying wrist pain after extensive playing though which was rather dissapointing! G On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 6:05 PM, Tristan von Neumann <[2]tristanvonneum...@gmx.de> wrote: How do you play on double metal strings? I recently tried to play lute pieces on a 12 string guitar, but I almost got blisters... I imagine on a small instrument the strings a thin and have quite some tension? What's Your technique? Am 05.07.2018 um 23:04 schrieb G. C.: Hi All, after attending a concert including a portuguise guitar, I was positively surprised to realise, that this rare metal strung instrument is also traditionally played using the thumb-in technique! And after aquiring a Yamaha G1 guitalele, I was equally surprised, that I could play difficult lute pieces satisfactorily on such a tiny and cheap instrument. (Getting a noticeable pain in the left wrist afterwards though, which was quite a deception!) G. -- References 1. mailto:kalei...@gmail.com 2. mailto:tristanvonneum...@gmx.de To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html