It sounds sumpin' like this: [1]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2f2a8IQiXH0&list=OLAK5uy_k-OxLE7w5P5Fx bDhFpl82dnQRVDnvHVFo&index=24
The entire album was recorded with nails, in the naivite of my youth before I realized that HIP means "What's Allowable Now." [2]Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 7:25 PM, Roland Hayes <rha...@legalaidbuffalo.org> wrote: I don't doubt that 17th century players who used nails had nice finish on their nails and a nice sound as a result. My curiosity is what does solo theorbo music sound like when competently played with nails? Get [1]Outlook for Android __________________________________________________________________ From: [3]lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu <[4]lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu> on behalf of M Del <[5]terli...@new-old-mail.cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2019 5:57:33 PM To: magnus andersson Cc: Yuval Dvoran; John Mardinly; Roland Hayes; jslute; Lute Subject: [LUTE] Re: De Visee My first guitar teacher Rolando Valdes-Blain taught his students to use finely crushed pumice stone and leather from a deer (it happened to be a piece from a hunter friend).Rolando was old enough to play on gut strings until he came back from WW2. Sent from my iPhone > On May 7, 2019, at 5:20 PM, magnus andersson <[6]maan7...@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote: > > Dear collective wisdom, > From what I have understood, it seems like manicure has been around > since at least 3200 BC, so I assume players like Piccinini, Corbetta > (who we know had > to cancel one of his concerts due to a broken nail- and still pay his > fellow musicians from his own pocket!) and perhaps de Visà ©e had found > a way for them to get it to work without shredding and tearing their > strings apart constantly, and - to quote Piccinini: > > "the one, and very important [thing] is to play neatly, and cleanly; In > the manner that all small touches of the string may be schietto, like > pearl[s]" > /Magnus > > On Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 10:45:44 PM GMT+2, John Mardinly > <[7]john.mardi...@asu.edu> wrote: > Pure speculation. Where are the facts? Can anyone document good nail > polishing techniques that may have been used centuries ago? I would > love to see it. Techniques used to polish things from telescope > lenses > and mirrors to razors would not work well on fingernails. The chamois > stropping technique used by Segovia because there was not much better > in the mid 20th Century would be deemed laughable today among those > who > play with nails. > A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E. > On May 7, 2019, at 4:48 AM, Yuval Dvoran > <[1][1][8]yuval.dvo...@posteo.de> > wrote: > 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 > <[2][2][9]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 > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone > -------- Original message -------- > From: John Mardinly <[3][3][10]john.mardi...@asu.edu> > Date: 5/6/19 6:51 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: Roland Hayes <[4][4][11]rha...@legalaidbuffalo.org> > Cc: Lute List <[5][5][12]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 > <[6][6][13]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. >> >> Get [1]Outlook for Android >> >> This message is intended only for the use of the individual > or > entity >> to which it is addressed, and may contain information that > is >> privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under > applicable >> law. 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