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On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:26:17 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2025-11-14, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-11-14 08:08, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:30:32 -0500, c186282 wrote:
>>> 
>>>>     I forget most younger folks were never trained to do that. The
>>>>     2-finger approach at best
>>> 
>>> I get more than two fingers involved but I'm not a touch typist. It
>>> doesn't take much to throw me off either, I bought same yams today and
>>> at the self checkout kiosk where you have to enter the name "where the
>>> hell is 'y'"
>>
>> Index finger, right hand, top letter row :-)
>>
>> My hands know where the letters are. Not me. :-)
> 
> I find that it's like that with musical instruments too. If someone asks
> me how to make a G shape on a guitar,
> it's much easier for me to just pick up a guitar and let my fingers do
> the walking.
> 
> My fingers speak mandolin, too.  I've come to think of the interface
> between strings and notes or chords as the equivalent of a device
> driver.  Switch instruments, switch drivers - and presto, a song you
> know on one instrument comes out on another.  The high-level functions
> that tell you which chords to play and/or sing remain the same.

I find that works between Irish flute/tin whistle and guitar/banjo. G is 
G. Some though is required with a Boehm flute since the F is really F# on 
the Irish flute.

I learned about CAGED a long time ago for guitars.