I play primarily steel string guitars, a little classical, classical piano,
5 string banjo, and now working on Ren lute.
Not long ago friends were encouraging me to use acrylic reinforcement
on nails, but I never liked the tone quality. One day I picked up something
heavy and the acrylics
I have terrible nails and I always have to use superglue with bits of
tissue to reinforce my nails.
I sometimes have to repair a broken nail with acrylic. You can buy
acrylic powder along with a solvent from a beauty supply store.
I dab a bit on a crack, and it hardens in a minute or so.
I stopped playing with nails on classical guitar. My concert
instrument is a 19th century guitar with gut strings. That helps. But
even the nylon strings classical guitar and the steelstring I play
with fingertips. No more fast tremolo, but hey, I never was any good
at that anyway. And it's a lot
I did the same thing about 12 years ago, started playing without
nails. It took me a bit of time to adjust my technique and find my
sound again, but then I could play most of the repertoire again on the
guitar. I do have to be careful about the type of string I use on
guitar though, mostly gut,
I used to file my nails at an angle so I had no nail on the right side when
playing thumb under on the lute (assuming a right handed player, holding the
right hand straight out in front). Ultimately, I found I was compromising my
lute hand position. Now, I just grow my nails out to do a
Hi, all.
Like David, I also play nylgut-strung guitars without nails. My guitar
specialty is 19th and early 20th century American parlor music.
Therefore, I also can't really offer the advice that Franz is seeking,
sorry!
Best to all,
Chris.
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at
Franz,
Dealing with the nails is a compromise. Basically, modern guitar
and baroque lute are mutually exclusive for me. I can play theorbo,
baroque guitar or 19th century guitar with or without nails. I can't
get a decent sound out of baroque lute with nails. I also can't alter
Dear Franz,
I went back to the classical guitar after many years, but also wanted
to continue to play the lute. I grew my nails out, but found that it
was too difficult to play the lute with nails from a tone perspective
as well as concern about damaging the soundboard.
So, I
I don't know if this helps Franz, but it helps me. I'm going to look for Qwick
Nail adhesive dots here in Japan. I never heard of such a thing.
On Aug 29, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Bill Eisele wrote:
Dear Franz,
I went back to the classical guitar after many years, but also wanted
to continue
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute and guitar
I don't know if this helps Franz, but it helps me. I'm going to look
for Qwick Nail adhesive dots here in Japan. I never heard of such a
thing.
On Aug 29, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Bill Eisele wrote:
Dear Franz,
I
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