Rest strokes tended to lock up my wrist way back when I played Classical Guitar. In fact, the "Segovia" technique I was schooled in locked up a lot of psycho/physical components. It took the Renaissance lute w/ thumb-inside right hand approach to unlock most of the physical components. I still wrestle with some of the psychological ones to this day- almost 40 years since I put down the Classical Guitar.
A certain amount of rest stroke practice combined with the described harp technique works quite well for training purposes, and using the rest stroke only for certain notes in performance can be fine for expression. Of course, the two single top strings of the d-minor lute and any single strung instrument are somewhat game changing. Dan On May 21, 2012, at 3:01 AM, David Tayler wrote: > I just use basic harp technique, which is pull, hold, release, but I > don't use rest strokes. > Rest strokes tend to lock up the wrist. But OK for special effect. > dt > > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
