Jan de Groot on 28 January 2016 11:49 wrote —
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...when playing very rapid passages, such as in Sweelinck's toccatas or, for example, Byrd's fantasia Nr. 13, I think that the very fast succession of, e.g., 23 or 34 was felt as inconvenient to the keyboard players in those early times as it is for me. Could it be that in such (exceptional?) cases these players applied some kind of what we now call 'modern' fingering?...


This may seem an obvious and perhaps silly suggestion, but maybe you should not try to play quite so fast. As well as being a little easier the music may gain in clarity.

After 'converting' to (my version of) early fingering over 25 years ago I now find so-called modern fingering more difficult. My version is mostly based on the English system, using the thumb in left hand ascending scale passages. As a church organist I even use early fingering when accompanying hymns.

Keep working at it but don't become ideologically attached to a specific methodology.

 — David Bedlow   

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