>It seems to me that if you were going to play mostly with >thumb-index, then unison stringing would carry the counterpoint >better, whereas if you were going to use your thumb on the 4th and >5th courses most of the time, octave stringing would sound better. >However, the lutenists of old didn't seem to see it that way. I >wonder what they had in mind.
Perhaps they put a great effort into hitting both courses with the thumb and the index so that there wouldn't be such a great difference between them. cheers, -- Ed Durbrow currently in Grass Valley, CA USA http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
