I've been playing without nails for at least 30 years, and I play
only metal-strung instruments. I have light calluses on my right
hand, nothing like those on the left, but it never occurred to me to
sand the right-hand fingers. Maybe I'll try it when I haven't got
any concerts coming up. What do you see as the advantages, Gary?
GDR
On Dec 11, 2007, at 11:09 AM, gary digman wrote:
Every classical guitarist I know carries a small swatch of
sandpaper in his
of her guitar case for smoothing fingertips. I'm surprised that
this is at
all contoversial. #600 wet and dry is a very fine grain sandpaper.
How often
do you play modern guitar, Rob? It seems to me that if you play 2
to 4 hours
a day on nylon strings without nails calluses are inevitable. But
maybe I'm
an anatomical oddity in more ways than one.
It's true that I have to be careful to smooth out my fingertips to
play
lute. An unfortunate fact of life if one continues to play guitar
as well as
lute, at least for me.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'gary digman'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'lutelist'"
<lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 1:45 AM
Subject: RE: [LUTE] Re: Swanneck + loaded strings
Calluses? Sandpaper? Mimic nails? Is that a common experience? I
must say,
Gary, that I've been playing without nails for almost 20 years,
and my
finger tips are very soft and smooth. Sandpaper?! Must be my blue
blood -
never done a day's work in my life.
HRH Rob
www.rmguitar.info
-----Original Message-----
From: gary digman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10 December 2007 09:29
To: lutelist
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Swanneck + loaded strings
I play guitar (modern and baroque) without nails. It's true that some
techniques such as tremolo become much more diffcult without
nails, but my
tremolo was never my strong suit anyway. I just got tired of
constantly
messing with nails, trying to get them shaped right, etc. Since I
started
playing lute, I kissed the nails goodbye. So far I've not
regretted it.
The
fingers develop calluses, which have to be sandpapered (#600 wet
and dry)
smooth, but mimic the attack of nails on the guitar.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Batov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "lute list" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 7:43 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Swanneck + loaded strings
On Sunday, December 09, 2007 3:06 PM LGS-
Europe<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
..
Nails/no nails have a similar effect on compositions; guitar
players
may
notice differences between Giuliani and Sor resulting from their
use/no
use of nails. (Hmm, authentic Lobos on gut. ;-) )
It'll take one good player to disproof this. In a similar vein,
most of
the
5-course guitar music, for example, was very much likely played with
nails
anyway ... but how many modern performers play it like this (I
mean on
the
'baroque' guitar)? - Perhaps a few. At the same time there are
some good
ones who play with or without nails.
Alexander
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