I did the same thing about 12 years ago, started playing without nails. It took me a bit of time to adjust my technique and find my sound again, but then I could play most of the repertoire again on the guitar. I do have to be careful about the type of string I use on guitar though, mostly gut, and nylgut (perla) on the 'modern classical' guitar. Jelma an Amersfoort
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:11 PM, David van Ooijen <davidvanooi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I stopped playing with nails on classical guitar. My concert > instrument is a 19th century guitar with gut strings. That helps. But > even the nylon strings classical guitar and the steelstring I play > with fingertips. No more fast tremolo, but hey, I never was any good > at that anyway. And it's a lot easier in daily life. > > David > > On 28 August 2012 14:13, Franz Mechsner > <franz.mechs...@northumbria.ac.uk> wrote: >> Dear Christopher, >> (and dear lute wisdom), >> >> I just see that you are playing and teaching the guitar as well as the >> lute. How do you manage to play both instruments regarding nails (and >> maybe other problems)? I am juggling between having the nails long when >> focusing on the guitar, thereby neglecting the lute, having >> "intermediate" nails while playing both instruments and short nails >> while playing the lute and vihuela, thereby now and then playing my >> guitar with finger tips. >> >> I would be interested how other people manage the problem(s) of loving >> instruments of both types. >> >> Best >> Franz >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > -- > ******************************* > David van Ooijen > davidvanooi...@gmail.com > www.davidvanooijen.nl > ******************************* > >
