Hahahaha good point!
To add something substantial to the discussion, I'd like to remember you that
also plants exist which were used for thousands of years to polish wood (and
maybe also fingernails), e.g. Equisetum ("Schachtelhalm" in German).Am
07.05.2019 13:31 schrieb jslute <jsl...@cs.dartmouth.edu>:
>
> Dear All:
>
> Might I suggest that a culture sophisticated enough to build lutes and
> craft overwound strings could have figured out a way to file and polish
> their nails.
>
> Jim Stimson
>
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: John Mardinly <john.mardi...@asu.edu>
> Date: 5/6/19 6:51 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: Roland Hayes <rha...@legalaidbuffalo.org>
> Cc: Lute List <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: De Visee
>
> More lacking than glue-on-nails might have been some of the modern
> files and abrasives used to polish the nails. Badly prepared nails give
> a terrible result for both sound and playability. My teacher back in
> 1965 had studied with Segovia, and showed me how Segovia prepared his
> nails: after some filing, he used a wooden block with a saw-cut slot in
> it and a piece of chamois wrapped around the wooden block. The nail was
> then rubbed back and forth on the chamois over the slot, which acted as
> a track to guide the nail. When I began to study metallurgy and the art
> of cross-sectioning and polishing metals to view their microstructure,
> I experienced a revolution in materials to polish the nails that were
> quickly adopted by many people playing with nails.
> A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E.
> > On May 6, 2019, at 3:34 PM, Roland Hayes <rha...@legalaidbuffalo.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Do we think he played with nails? Lutenists did not as I
> understand,
> > but
> >
> > I have always thought his lute pieces were merely arrangements of
> > guitar/theorbo pieces. For those instruments we can establish the
> use
> > of nails.
> >
> > And if deVisee played guitar with nails, then he most likely played
> > theorbo with nails as well. Yes? Glue on nails had yet to arrive on
> the
> > scene.
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