On 08/04/2014 06:12 PM, howard posner wrote:
On Aug 4, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Tobiah wrote:
I'm interested in how they played, but I like what Jimmy Hendrix
did with Francis Scott Key
You mean John Stafford Smith, unless you’re admiring the way Hendrix
recited poetry.
I knew I should have look
Martyn,
On Mon, 8/4/14, Martyn Hodgson wrote:
> Moreover, iconography etc also clearly
> shows that the lute (and theorbo
> etc) were played in a higher (ie up the
> stomach) position than the
> modern guitar which, after Tarrega, is
> common
On Aug 5, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Tobiah wrote:
Ever since grade school, I've heard that
> Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem. I guess I always assumed that he
> wrote the music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Anacreon_in_Heaven
> What's funny is that there are a lot of people in the
On 8/4/14 6:12 PM, howard posner wrote:
On Aug 4, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Tobiah wrote:
Our ears are in tune with a different set of practices
now (at least the general public). Perhaps if we looked up from anthropology
It’s not anthropology. It’s the instruction manual. If you pay thousands of
On Aug 5, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Doug Asherman wrote:
> There's an instruction manual? Why am I spending all this money on lessons?
Your question indicates a lack of experience with instruction manuals.
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Doug and Tobiah
Just out of curiosity I attempted thumb-under lute technique on my CG.
I needed to raise the pinky with a lightly stuck-on pencil eraser (due
to the raised soundboard the strings are high). Apart from that, no
problem, it was easy and sounded reasonably good though su
Sor advocated some sort of p/i for some pieces. His hand position was
"sort of" thumb under, as far as I understand it. Many disclaimers in
this statement, but just to say it's not a crazy thing to do. On a
period guitar. But we're drifting into OT CG territory here. ;-)
David
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Well into CG territory, I once saw some p-i fingerings by Vahdah Olcott
Bickford- but no reason to assume thumb-under. (Those of us who have
mastered LATE Renaissance lute technique find p - i runs to be just as
fast and- except for some course crossing in descending passagi- just
as
