>I have a very unconstructive commentary to David and Jean-Marie, you
>both are holding your lute on the wrong side !
This is actually a point of serious interest. Normally, watching
someone of opposite hand/eye orientation do a familiar task is
disorienting, (at least on the immediate perceptive response level)
hence the historic prejudice against those of minority orientation
(obviously, mostly lefties) Some practical group problems- a line of
violinists getting poked by every 20th person.
Watching one of David's excellent videos recently I got a visual
orientation epiphany- I held up my own two hands ("air lute")
opposite his on the computer screen, and felt that I was being
guided- as if through a mirrored reflection- and all fell into place.
No more dizzy feeling of "wrong sided" playing, but instead an
immediate, sudden, and final locking into place.
I don't recall how often watching oneself in a mirror for
self-correction in lute study has been recommended, but I am sure it
has been done. I will now advise my own students to try both that and
observe David's videos with the "mirrored visual guidance" state of
mind. This form of self observance is of course standard in dance
studios and martial arts schools.
Oh yes, nothing "left-handed" about the sound. Clean, but gutsy-
played "instructively" rather than "concerty" which of course is to
the point. Good work on the new Baroque lute debut postings, too.
Dan
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