"Stephen Fryer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > What seems to be lacking is any description of RH finger technique - > beyond such things as "strike upward" with the fingers or "strike > downward" with the thumb. Where do the ideas come from that were so > well described by Mathias Rösel:
> > Get a light grip to both strings of the course with your forefinger. > > Push the course toward the soundboard a bit, slightly letting bend > > the 1st (from the tip) knuckle. Then let go. Try to connect the parts > > of that movements into a whole. Do it once, in one touch. > > ... touch the strings in the described way, kinda tapping, and the sound > > is just there > Where does this technique come from, as opposed to something like > classical guitar technique? You could read that in Stefan Lundgren's Method for the Renaissance Lute which was published in TREE publishing house in the late 1970ies IIRC. Stefan very diligently described the RH forefinger stroke, illustrating it with photographs so as to avoid misunderstandings. He didn't mention the slight bending of the 1st joint, though, which my then teacher, Rainer Waldeck, spent a lot of time to show and instruct me. Thumb-in intermittant p-i stroke was then commonly called figueta (Spanish for *fig*, a certain calumnious hand gesture). I seem to remember that this name was taken from Luis Venegas de Henestrosas's book "Cifras Nuevas" where he describes several RH techniques. That very RH technique was taught by Paul O'Dette as well as Pat O'Brian in the early 80ies when I was lucky enough to meet them during their visits in Germany. -- Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
