Dear Paul, a very good point indeed. You have pointed out to the simple phrase that is not-so-simple when you start to think about it.
I can only describe what my body is shaped like in that matter. My left hand nails which I keep as short as possible of course, do not go out of tips, but still there is a room between nail and flesh. I can imagine the possibility of putting the finger against the string so the string goes between the flesh and very short nail. This would be easiest to achieve near the bridge, where string is hardest. Doubt: for the rest of your time you practice to avoid the "technique" so this seemes rather impractical. Other possibility: the nail is cut short on attack side but left longer on the other side of finger, so when makink an oboe effect, the nail can be brought to action by chancing the left hand position in irder to keep fingers exacty at right angle to the strings. Seemes to be more practical, but this is an unsupported supposition. Best, Krzysztof Komarnicki ---------------------------------------------------- Cameron Diaz i Toni Collette w filmie SIOSTRY W kinach od 27 stycznia 2005 r. http://klik.wp.pl/?adr=http%3A%2F%2Fadv.reklama.wp.pl%2Fas%2Fsiostry.html&sid=641 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
