On Dec 15, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Chris Barker <csbarker...@att.net> wrote:
> Tarrega taught Pujol to play with nailess right hand > fingertips, and Pujol passed that technique on to others. I presume that > Segovia's use of nails, and increased volume of his instrument because of > that, might have gotten him bigger audiences. Llobet was a Tarrega student and played with nails, according to Segovia, who didn't care for his tone. And according to Segovia, he played bigger venues because he didn't buy the prevailing view that it would't work. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
