XPost: rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic   
   From: walkinay@thegrid.net   
      
   jgoska wrote:   
      
   > The other   
   > problem is that flatpicking uses two symbols, one of which looks like a   
   > "V" and the other looks something like a table.  The magazine explains   
   > that the table means stroke down and the V means stroke up, but its the   
   > old problem on the guitar, if you stroke down physically (towards your   
   > leg), you are stroking up musically (towards the high strings), and if   
   > you stroke down musically (towards the low strings) you are stroking up   
   > physically (towards your chin), so I am stumped again, and I am afraid   
   > that I might be playing these tunes upside down.   
      
   Well, thems the same symbols used for bowed strangled instruments, so it   
   could make some sensibilities, but if'n the magazine done tol' it   
   thataway they must've used a writer in South Murrica where the Coriolis   
   effect twists ever'thang aroun' backerds.   
      
   But keep affer it; 'ventually folks'll say, "He kin flat _pick_".   
      
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