On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Ed Durbrow<[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 16, 2009, at 8:29 PM, [1][email protected] wrote: > > you are left-handed! > So, I should see your videos > with a mirror! > > Or imagine you are looking in a mirror.
Some of my pupils like doing the latter, saying it makes it very easy to copy technique and posture. Some keep getting mixed up and find especially looking at hand-on-the-fingerboard fingerings (chords!) very confusing. But some don't even notice untill many, many lessons after the first one. The only negative point for me is that I cannot play on their instruments. Not just to check set-up or tuning, but also to show them it's not the lute that makes the good or bad sound but it is the player, and, yes, speed is possible on their lutes too, and, indeed, a barre is a little harder how it's done by putting my hand on their instrument, while they are holding it, so they can really see what it looks like from the player's point of view. By now I can fake lot of good hand postures with the 'wrong' hand, and even make a pretty decent tone with the 'wrong' hand. Perhaps I should learn to play right handed now? ;-) I remember a lesson from Tony Bailes who in his usual fashion was going to bend over me to play on my lute while I was holding it. He suddenly stopped, stunned, and realised something was amiss. I thought of reversing the videos but didn't. After all, I'm left handed and that's how it looks like. David - cuts sashimi with his right hand > > Ed Durbrow > Saitama, Japan > [2][email protected] > [3]http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ > > -- > > References > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. mailto:[email protected] > 3. http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl *******************************
