You might want to check Robert Barto's articles in the LSA Quarterly and his recent workshops on dedillo. Best, Matthew
> On Jul 9, 2017, at 17:04, Martyn Hodgson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Reading the English language summary (in Lute News 117) of the early > journals of the Sociedad de la Vihuela 'Hispanica Lyra', I was > again struck by the different right hand plucking techniques evidently > reasonably common and widespread in sixteenth century Spain. > Principally the use of two right hand digits (either the first and > second fingers or the thumb and first finger) ie dos dedos; or the use > of just the index finger to strike the string ie dedillo. > Over the years I have, unsucessfully, tried to use a sort of free > stroke dedillo (similar the index finger strumming but just on one > course) but find it very tricky to control the stroke especially on > runs across different courses. I recently tried steadying the index > with the thumb and this seems to work a lot better - much increased > control and accuracy. Indeed, the position is not dissimilar to holding > a plectrum between the thumb and first finger - but without actually > having a plectrum which place is taken by the index finger. > I seem to recall that this technique of steadfying the index with the > thumb when playing dedillo was mentioned in some other modern journal > and would be grateful for a reference - or my memory may be playing me > false! > Martyn > > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
