Uh-oh boys 'n girls- we're mixing our threads here. I've never felt
strongly about the marker marks except that they've always bothered
me aesthetically- but on rare occasions helped me out when playing
strictly from memory; which (classical) guitarists have always done
far more than any of us
I hope you may be right for the loaded strings. Perhaps they are on
their way, and you read the signs better than I do. Undoubtedly,
Mimmo will be demonstrating something this month at the Greenwich
early music festival. I suppose you may see his lute strung with
loaded strings, perhaps
Howdy, Dan!
I do use markers, as I play many different sized instruments. I recall
working with a lutenist about 8 years, ago, practicing duets. This
particular lutenist plays many different kinds of lutes, and in one piece,
he was not hitting the right note up on the 8th or 9th fret. I
Top of the afternoon to you too, Ed-
Not against markers, just don't like the appearance. On my 72 cm. 8
course, (that's a LONG highway for these old fingers) Barber put a
very discreet little white dot at the seventh, on the neck near the
neck/fingerboard junction, worked very well anytime I
