On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Oskar De Mari <oskar_demari_jo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > proffesionals or high-level amatuers or who have managed to combine > activities as a lutenists with continued classical guitar concertizing.
I earn my living with lutes and guitars. Not modern, classical guitar but a 19th century instrument. I keep a string tension of 5 to 5,5kg per string for that guitar, and have gut on it. For a while I played with nails on all instruments, but I've changed to no-nails. Teaching guitar I do on a 20th century classical guitar with nylon and modern strings/tension. That is a little hard on the finger tips at times. I try to aim at an edge of protective nail on my teaching days, and absolutely short nails for the rest of the week. My nails grow fast. :-) As an aside. I have found that once you are able to make a sound you want, e.g. with no-nails on low-tension gut, you can emulate that sound pretty well on everything else: nails, high tension carbon, whatever. Mind over matter. I have colleagues who alternate periods of nails with periods of no-nails, depending on their concert schedules. I often bring a lute and a guitar to concerts for half/half programmes. Also in song recitals with singers. David - who thinks there's only one Julian Bream -- ******************************* David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
