I think you'll find that the best players play both thumb positions -- it's
dependant on the music really. It would be very difficult to play much of the
later music with larger lutes (10+ courses) with thumb under -- you can't get
to the lower courses as easily. I had to learn Jesu Joy of Man's
is there any site with a description of the
several right hand techniques?
I recommend: http://www.xs4all.nl/~amarin/Page1.html Alfonso
Marin's collection of lute related pictures. A picture is worth a
thousand words.
cheers,
--
Ed Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
It would be very difficult to play much of the
later music with larger lutes (10+ courses) with thumb under -- you can't get
to the lower courses as easily.
I don't understand this. How does the hand position make a difference
on the deep bass courses? I am stretching to the max to hit the
It would be very difficult to play much of the
later music with larger lutes (10+ courses) with thumb under -- you can't get
to the lower courses as easily.
I don't understand this. How does the hand position make a difference
on the deep bass courses? Or, how does thumb under make it
I've recently made the switch to gut on my Baroque lute. I've had the
strings on for about 10 days now. The sound of gut is almost a religious
experience, but find I can't keep them in tune through one piece. This is
extremely frustrating,as the nylgut that I 'm used to stayed in tune for
hours.
I think part of the answer is the temperature of the strings
change as your hands warm them.
I have learned not to tune my gut-strung lute straight out of the case,
because in 10 minutes or so I will have to do it again.
Instead I just hold the lute (sometimes without playing at all)
and make
You can see an animation of Jacob Heringman's right hand playing with 'thumb
under' technique on the home page of his website www.heringman.com. You just
move your mouse over the close-up pictures of his hand and his hand will
move. Of course whether you do this 'mouse under' or 'mouse over' is
Dear Craig,
Many thanks. That's extremely useful. You can see clearly how the
right-hand index finger follows through its stroke past the
thumbnail. It is very instructive for anyone wishing to understand
thumb-inside.
Best wishes,
Stewart McCoy.
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From: Craig
Then too, you have the problem of how socialized the two societies
are/were.
Some governments pay for medical care, education, roads, entertainment,
arts, etc. Some pay for little more than police, military, and palaces.
X dollars per year in a socialized country might be more than 2X
I've never played thumb in or thumb under or whatever it may be called,
but does it really facilitate the thumb-index alternation of FAST scalar
runs? It would great if someone could post a compressed video with audio
demonstrating the benfits of this tecnique.With thumb out technique, I can
Dear LuteNet,
many pictures and few words:
Sweden in Mai: (with our friend Thomas Schall)
(the pictures are a little big, but I think they are worth it)
http://www.luteonline.de/courses.htm
and Germany in November:
http://www.luteonline.de/landshut.htm
Best wishes
Stefan Lundgren
--
Dear companions,
Old mythology + electronic music =3D GUDASAGA
YMIRS DEATH
The other race in the world are the gods, the Aesir. The leader of the gods=
is Odin (lute). The Aesir want to stop the ungoverned spreading of the gia=
nts and trolls, and so Odin kills Ymir.
Listen to:
In a message dated 11/17/03 10:08:48 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can see an animation of Jacob Heringman's right hand playing with
'thumb
under' technique on the home page of his website www.heringman.com.
You can also find video clips (no sound!) showing
Hi James:
I look forward to your pictures/movie. I think any time you are =
discussing technique people around here come alive. It is encouraging =
to me that there are so many who are playing thumb out, or at least =
playing around with the technique. I first started serious study of the =
Oh List,
I wondering about the following measure in the part of the first lute of
Besard's Branles de Village for g and d lutes. The measure occurs in the
second segment of the fourth branle. The first segment starts and ends
with half measures, which are separated by seven full measures. The
Though a Roman perusal
May meet a refusal,
A McCoy-made charade
Isn't hard. :-)
SAM
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Roman Turovsky wrote:
The perusal will be somewhat taxing, as the piece is ca.120
bars long, but I
hope that the impending delectation would be
unimpeded.
Thanks Sarn,
It
Dear All,
I was sent the following in a private e-mail off list, and the
sender said I could pass it on:
-o-O-o-
I'm fascinated by the OED definitions of knacks, particularly by
the ones
which relate the word to ingenious contrivances -- note also the
17th-century quotation All those pretty
Dear Jason,
To answer your question: absolutely no reason at all. If you are
happy with thumb-outside, go for it. Stay with it. Enjoy it. play
quickly and happily. It's absolutely fine. Laurencini played that
way, as did Dowland in later life. There is a famous picture of
Bakfark playing
I agree. Do what suits you. I play thumb under for the earlier
renaissance music, thumb out for baroque.
ed
At 12:31 AM 11/18/03 +, Stewart McCoy wrote:
Dear Jason,
To answer your question: absolutely no reason at all. If you are
happy with thumb-outside, go for it. Stay with it. Enjoy
A lutenist Stewart McCoy,
middle-aged, but inside still a boy,
Once wrote a charade
on his house's facade,
now his neighbours are cloyed, oy-oy-oy...
RT
Though a Roman perusal
May meet a refusal,
A McCoy-made charade
Isn't hard. :-)
SAM
The perusal will be somewhat taxing, as the
I thought that the rule was, gut didn't react to temperature but only to
humidity, this seems to be untrue at least in my case. It seems gut reacts
just as bad to temperature changes as to humidity changes.
Michael Thames
Luthier
www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com
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