On Feb 9, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Jean-Marie Poirier wrote: > May I remind all of you interested in that thread on hand position, > that I had put up a couple of web pages with iconographical > evidence about that very same point. You will find it there : > > for the renaissance : http://le.luth.free.fr/renaissance/index.html > for the 17th century : http://le.luth.free.fr/baroque/index.html > for the 18th century : http://le.luth.free.fr/baroque2/index.html
It's fascinating to examine those images of past players, just as it is to watch players today, but let's not forget what that examination teach us: that each player's right hand, living or dead, is different to all the others. There must be a message in that somewhere... davidr dlu...@verizon.net -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
