Hello, I use a rather thin and soft bull horn ud pick. I don't really know whether they did use these at the time, but I strongly suspect so. Anyway this is more historical than plastic guitar picks, convenient though they may be, sounds real different too. I think a most interresting feature is you don't hold it like a guitar pick, and your strumming angle and movement is closer to for instance XV=B0 century plectrum lute playing, or contemporary ud playing. Renaissance cittern technique is certainly a very close descendant of these playing techniques as can be guessed from iconography, in terms of right hand position, notably. To make it work all right, you have to sand paper the sides of your plectrum so it slides easily on the strings and creates no parasite noises. Arnaud
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