Dear Robert, if you look at the Paladin print from 1553, he uses a dot underneath 3 voices which I ´d interpret to be played by three fingers and not the thumb. For example the fifth bar in the Pavana chiamata la Paladina. Thumb plays the bass voice, the fingers the rest. Best, Magnus
On Monday, August 31, 2020, 11:25:57 AM GMT+2, Robert Barto <r.ba...@gmx.de> wrote: Thanks Martin. From: A briefe and plaine instruction 1574 Le Roy [1]https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1176218k/f138.image The sixtene Rule For to plaie fower partes, it is easely to be understande, that the thombe and the three fingers together, serve easely to strike the fower strynges or partes, eche doying his parte, strikyng upward and dounewarde. I assume the 1568 edition says the same. Brown says this is an English translation of a sightly earlier now lost edition. (1557 or 1567) And do we have permission to use the ring finger earlier in the 16th century? To get on or off this list see list information at [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1176218k/f138.image 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
