Oh dear! To think we had this taught to us at school by our excellent music master! Incidentally I think I prefer the myth and it's much more memorable than the truth.
Bill Samson Chair of the Society for the Dissemination of Misleading Myths and Allegories that are so much more entertaining than facts. From: howard posner <[email protected]> To: Lute List <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 18 August 2011, 18:10 Subject: [LUTE] Re: Renaissance lute & string length On Aug 18, 2011, at 2:47 AM, William Samson wrote: > We all know what happened to > Robert Schumann's right hand when he tried to use some sort of device > to pull his fingers apart. We don't, and he didn't. It's a myth caused by adding two and two and getting nine. Cordially yours, Howard Posner Executive Administrative Facilitating Coordinating Executive Society for Truth in Robert Schumann Stories -- To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
