Thanks again Lex.
But if we pluck THROUGH the course, (ie parallel to the plane of the
belly) one can achieve a much greater amplitude without the string
slapping rattleing on the fingerboard/belly and thus will have a strong
bass (as well as its octave) - as I think, the Old Ones would have
generally expected.....
Martyn
--- On Sun, 4/12/11, Lex Eisenhardt <eisenha...@planet.nl> wrote:
From: Lex Eisenhardt <eisenha...@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: hand plucking position (wasGuitar
bridges)
To: "vl" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>, "Martyn Hodgson"
<hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sunday, 4 December, 2011, 9:58
> I'm not sure I'm getting this business of the thumb plucking up -
I've
> presumed you mean away from the belly - but have I got this wrong?
If
> it is as I've been thinking you meant (ie plucking the string
upwards -
> away from the belly) doesn't this lead to much slapping of strings
onto
> the fingerboard/belly if plucked with any great vigour?
Indeed in a slight angle away from the corpus (a guitar has a slender
waist). I think I have seen many lutenists and guitarists doing that.
This is probably one reason why most baroque guitarists have no clear
bass when playing the (octave strung) fourth course.
best, Lex
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