On Jan 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Ron Andrico wrote: > With one exception, nearly > all our notable baroque lutenists of today use a thumb-under > technique. This even applies to a lutenist I've seen in a > recent video > who is described as never having played renaissance lute. What > gives? > Why don't baroque lutenists today use what is an unquestionably > obvious > historical technique?
Because they begin with renaissance lute? -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
