On Sat, Jan 5, 2008, vance wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I know that this must be a bit off topic but beside the issue of accessing > the additional bases as a criteria for thumb out one has to ask why was > thumb in used in the first place, especially when you consider how the thumb > and second finger sometimes interfere with each other?
I understood that it was because of the influence of plectrum play, which has strong (down) strokes, weak (up) strokes, taking advantage of the weight of the arm. When the plectrum is discarded in favor of fingers, one gains the ability to arpeggiate and play lines of polyphony in ensemble leaving harmony to emerge from the ensembles efforts; but the ear will also have an apreciation and expectation of the old strong/weak accentuation; and the player will have a well developed sense of how to give that with the arm. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
