Cool and thank you for the reference. As you allude, of course, a reversal of original art in the engraving process was common comfortably into the 19th c.
Best, Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: David Tayler [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 3:46 PM > To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: [LUTE] Re: RH position, was: Dilettantism > > The quid non sentit amor is the one I was thinking of > http://emblems.let.uu.nl/c1627_facsimile.html?thumb=tekst254&emblem=43 > > Lefty or reversi? > > 1627 or therabouts my Dutch is rusty. > Use the ZOOM button at the bottom to see the OUD like plectrum. > Ooops there is English too--not very helpful. > > dt > > >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
