On Nov 2, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Robert Clair wrote: > The "no marker on the 7th fret" is a self-flagellating lunatic > classical guitar thing. Someone once asked Paul about this at a > summer workshop. He explained that he played lots of different > instruments with widely varying string lengths and finished up by > saying "I'd rather look stupid than sound stupid".
Well said. Lute necks are pretty short, negating the need for a marker for the most part, if you have one instrument, but when you get into having different instruments which have different numbers of frets on the the neck, it becomes a real problem, at least if you are judging your position by where the body meets the neck. 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
