No stance on morality was intended to be implied. Sinistral literally means left handed/oriented. The moral implications were added later.
Best, Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: Jean-Marie Poirier [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 5:07 PM > To: lute > Subject: [LUTE] Re: RH position, was: Dilettantism > > What about this picture from 1601 (by Philippe Galle) : > http://le.luth.free.fr/lefties.htm > When in the same picture you can see an right-handed player and a left- > handed one, I suppose it adds up to admitting that lefties did exist, even > in a very small proportion, just like now. > And I don't really buy the "moral" justification to the representation of > a lefty player... > > Best, > > Jean-Marie, one rather happy lefty in the oppressed minority ;-))) > > ======= 09-02-2009 21:45:56 ======= > > > > >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 > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- > >Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. > >Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. > > > > > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > [email protected] > http://poirierjm.free.fr > 09-02-2009 >
