Paul Odette told me: When I arrived in Basel in 1973 I was amazed to hear some of the other students playing without nails and making an exquisite sound. I cut off my nails, but discovered that the quick of my nails are so high that I ended up scratching across the end of the nail rather than stiking the string with the flesh. Eugen Dombois, my teacher in Basel, suggested that I try the thumb under technique, which had recently been rediscovered by Sigmar Salzburg, an amateur lutenist in Hannover. He showed it to Michael Schaeffer, who gave a demonstration of it for us in Basel. I tried it a few months later and found it suited my physiology very well.
So this is around '73, that is why I thought David predates most of us. On Jul 23, 2007, at 8:17 PM, Edward Martin wrote: > I think Michael Schaffer was one of the first in our times to explore > "thumb under". Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
