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?
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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.
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> On May 7, 2019, at
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
After I pare my nails I step outside and find a brick sidewalk or wall
and sweep the back of my hand over it--the opposite direction you'd use
to scratch your fingers on the blackboard to irritate others. It's a
crude ceramic abrasive surface but it works. I could spend more time on
Manicure has been around a long more than lute-playing.
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On 5/7/2019 4:44 PM, John Mardinly 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
Actually this is very interesting. Here is link to a photo of Equisetum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equisetum_hyemale#/media/File:Dried_Equisetum_hyemale.jpg
used for centuries in Japan to polish swords. I doubt that it would as well on
nails as modern abrasive paper.The first ’sandpaper’ was
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
San Francisco based "Qadim Ensemble" google if you like
attended this concert
one of the performer mention that Oud in Arabic/Hebrew was translated
into
Western translation mistakenly in to the word lute
Is this understood and true for lute Music historian on the list? .
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 :
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> Dear
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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