Hi All, after attending a concert including a portuguise guitar, I was positively surprised to realise, that this rare metal strung instrument is also traditionally played using the thumb-in technique! And after aquiring a Yamaha G1 guitalele, I was equally surprised, that I could play difficult lute pieces satisfactorily on such a tiny and cheap instrument. (Getting a noticeable pain in the left wrist afterwards though, which was quite a deception!) G.
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