Very interesting. I see shoulder problems and maybe a pinched cranial nerve in that guy's "future" (1519?) but the actual hand position resembles Valentin Bakfark's hand position on his big lute on the cover illustration for one of his books. I've known several lutenists considerably mas gordo than him. Great faces.
>This is kind of a cool lute. >Renaissance, circa Capirola, very, very large. Table position >The thumb is in the very popular "thumb middle", neither particularly >inside the hand nor stretched out. >Left hand in "cruiser" position. >Box for spare strings? >http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/tdimage?object=90793 > -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
