IIRC, from his 2008 class at LSA, it's a guitar E string or a similar length of nylon, with a bit of feather attached. He talked about using real feathers, but they tend to break down fairly quickly.
Guy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stuart Walsh Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 5:36 AM To: Lute Net Subject: [LUTE] Anyone see Crawford Young's concert? Crawford Young gave a concert last night in London. I couldn't get to it. I'd be very interested to know anything about the polyphonic stuff with psaltery and harp - like what instrument did what? And no percussion in this? And - if anyone was sharp-eyed enough - what was he using as a plectrum? (Crawford Young uses a bit of guitar string or the floppy end of a feather for a plectrum, evidently!) Stuart To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
