On Sunday 28 August 2005 10:03, you wrote: > I am religiously trying to follow De Visée's right hand fingering of his > theorbo pieces (Saizenay MS): no third finger! I find it not easy to leave > my well-trained guitar-a out of it, but it does improve my sound (changing > to no nails and gut strings also helped ;-). Anyone else has the same or > contradictory experiences? > > David - trying to talk about lutes again > It's difficult but you are right. Problems arise with the thumb trying to find again a specific bass, especially (like me) when you have rather small hands. When I put my pinky on the soundboard it still introduces more wrong basses because of the stretching and putting a on the first string for orientation gives better results. However the technique with the pink on the soundboard gives a better tone; kind of problem what to do. I think exercising more on the latter. Isn't this what Kapsberger was also doing? Need to check. taco
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