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



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