Stanley Yates wrote: > Yet, as far as I know, there is no single statement to be found among the > perfromance practice sources of the period that discusses the modern concept > of differentiated plucking on an octave-strung course. This is not to say > that master guitarists of the time didn't do it, only that they didn't > consider it worth writing about; presumably thay didn't consider it it a > central tenet of their idiom.
Or considered it a trade secret. Or, just as likely, figured that anyone who could actually do it was advanced enough not to need instruction from a preface. HP To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html