[LUTE] Re: right hand technique -- bending the pinky

2019-03-05 Thread Jo.Luedtke
‎Dear Alan, dear Jurgen, There is something to that effect in all 'oroginal' versions of Besard's instructions, that is: 1603 and 1617. I do not remember if ye text englished contains the passage... Best Joachim   Originalnachricht   Von: Alain Veylit Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. März 2019 04:32

[LUTE] Re: right hand technique -- bending the pinky

2019-03-05 Thread Jo.Luedtke
Sorry: 'original', naturally! Gesendet von meinem BlackBerry 10-Smartphone.   Originalnachricht   Von: jo.lued...@t-online.de Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. März 2019 07:49 An: Lute net Antwort an: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu Betreff: [LUTE] Re: right hand technique -- bending the pinky ‎Dear Alan, dear

[LUTE] Re: right hand technique -- bending the pinky

2019-03-05 Thread Roman Turovsky
According to Pat O'Brien one should never bend the right pinky, as that locks the rest of the hand and particularly - the elbow. Pat actually had me put masking tape on my pinky early on, to prevent it from bending. RT On 3/5/2019 2:11 AM, Jurgen Frenz wrote: It would be totally excellent if

[LUTE] Re: Tip - Lute Scribe character / font question

2019-03-05 Thread Luke Emmet
Hi Jurgen LuteScribe, and the underlying TAB text format that it builds on are not exactly WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), but rather WYSIWYM - what you see is what you meant. In essence they provide a series of formatting commands to the underlying TAB program which typesets the

[LUTE] Re: right hand technique -- bending the pinky

2019-03-05 Thread Richard Brook
Actually, and likely off subject, I was thinking of the right hand pinky, and (not on the lute) whether you could hold your fingers up and bend just the pinky into the palm. I can’t without dragging down the ring finger, I think Pat said Paul couldn’t do it. But maybe the test was with the left

[LUTE] Re: right hand technique -- bending the pinky

2019-03-05 Thread Rainer
When I first watched the film Gattaca a pianist played a well known piece (was it an Impromptu by Schubert?) I suddenly noticed some strange additional notes and told my girl friend that something was weird here. Of course, you need twelve fingers for this "version" of the piece. Shaking hands

[LUTE] Re: right hand technique -- bending the pinky

2019-03-05 Thread howard posner
> On Mar 5, 2019, at 2:09 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: > > Pat actually had me put masking tape on my pinky early on, > to prevent it from bending. Yes, shaking hands with Roman was always a strange experience for that reason. To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: right hand technique -- bending the pinky

2019-03-05 Thread Leonard Williams
Due to my Dupuytrens contracture (makes the ring and pinky fold in fixedly), I have a permanent, but surgically correctible (trying to avoid this) bend to my right pinky (left was worse but successfully corrected years ago). What works for me is resting the pinky on its side

[LUTE] Re: right hand technique -- bending the pinky

2019-03-05 Thread RCP
Thumb and Pinky, that's the sign of a good Boy Scout. On 3/5/2019 10:16 AM, Richard Brook wrote: Actually, and likely off subject, I was thinking of the right hand pinky, and (n ot on the lute) whether you could hold your fingers up and bend just the pinky i nto the palm. I can't without

[LUTE] Re: Tip - Lute Scribe character / font question

2019-03-05 Thread Jurgen Frenz
Thank you for the clarification - I understand now. J -- “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.” Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, March 5, 2019 3:51 PM, Luke Emmet wrote: > Hi Jurgen > > LuteScribe, and the

[LUTE] Re: right hand technique -- bending the pinky

2019-03-05 Thread Alain Veylit
Jurgen, It's been a while and I was quoting from memory... but I am sure I saw it somewhere - perhaps the instructions translated in English in the Varietie of Lute Lessons? Or maybe the use of dots in Thesaurus Harmonicus ... Alain On 3/4/19 11:11 PM, Jurgen Frenz wrote: It would be