Thanks again, Howard. Actually knowing history is obviously more useful than making assumptions about it! I appreciate your making me aware of the Spanish connection and migration. That a certain style of playing is more comfortable than another seems to me sufficient reason to adopt it. I think I'm in that no-man's-land where I'm not fully comfortable with the thumb-under style, but have progressed far enough with it that I don't know that I could be comfortable with thumb-over again. Perhaps I'll end up with a compromise between the two!
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