Herbert Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > According to my teacher, the lute thumb-out technique developed in the > Baroque (post-Renaissance), as lutes acquired more courses (ie became > wider), and had more complex bass lines. So you may very well see old > paintings showing both types of technique.
It was already there in the 1500's, mostly in the South. One theory is that it was part of vihuela technique, and worked its way into Italy and then north. Dowland's conversion to thumb-out almost certainly occurred before 1600.
