Hi, I am using an Ergoplay for the lute too, which seems the most comfortable option for myself at least.
But I would mainly like to ask a question to the community which I have not been able to resolve yet. It is often stressed that the lute is a descendant of the Arabian oud, thus it comes from the Arabian culture like much of our early science etc. As I have learned, flamenco has heavily been influenced by the Arabs too. However, much of the characteristics of Arabian music like diverse modi with 1/4 etc. intervals seems not to have been of much influence on early and later occidental music. Might the reason be that the diatonic systems were already so strong? I have actually no idea, only that question, which one might expand to the question how occidental music, and in particular lute music, was and was not influenced by oriental music, and why. Franz -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
