I still contend there may have been a few to many left-handed lute players: perhaps as broadly represented as within the population at large, perhaps even more so. Nobody knows. Being right-handed and fretting with the left hand are not a perfect corollaries. It also is not mandatory for lefties to place the neck of a stringed instrument in their right hand. I don't, I never have, and I was never discouraged from expressing my inherent sinistral tendencies. I also don't dictate to my sinistral clan that my way (the standard way) is the only way. Make it work however you can.
Best, Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: David Tayler [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 3:18 PM > To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: [LUTE] Re: RH position, was: Dilettantism > > Obviously, because there were no lefty lute players. Except for > Leonardo da Vinci. > There are some nice lefty lute player images in the fabulous emblem > collection that was posted here recently. > dt > > > At 04:25 AM 2/9/2009, you wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jean-Marie Poirier > ><[email protected]> 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 > > > > >http://le.luth.free.fr/ > > > >Nice pages, and not a lefty in sight! > > > >David > > > >-- > >******************************* > >David van Ooijen > >[email protected] > >www.davidvanooijen.nl > >******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
