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Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: One more damn question about which instrument...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jon Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Saturday, Septe
- Original Message -
From: Jon Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, September 10, 2005 4:01 am
Subject: [LUTE] Re: One more damn question about which instrument...
> I've been playing a Spanish/Classical guitar for fifty years without nails
> (admittedly not much
Wayne,
> I have found that using the lightest classical guitar strings
> (medium??) and tuning a pitch low gives a lower tension
> to the strings. The guitar won't sound as good as a lute,
> and it won't sound as good as a regularly strung classical
> guitar, but it will hael you work on lute rh
Chris,
> Unfortunately, playing a modern classical guitar
> without nails is like playing a ren lute with nails.
> The modern guitar was built for nylon strings (all
> instruments since WWII) and made with the nails in
> mind.
I've been playing a Spanish/Classical guitar for fifty years without
I have found that using the lightest classical guitar strings
(medium??) and tuning a pitch low gives a lower tension
to the strings. The guitar won't sound as good as a lute,
and it won't sound as good as a regularly strung classical
guitar, but it will hael you work on lute rh technique.
--On Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:12 AM +0200 Taco Walstra
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> On Thursday 15 September 2005 05:19, jim abraham wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> You're probably getting tired of hearing these kinds of questions, and I
>> am going to talk to my teacher (Chris Henrikson) about it
--- Taco Walstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And don't forget to play guitar music from the 20th
> century which is often
> very beautiful! Pieces by Moreno-Torroba and Rodrigo
> are surely better with
> CG technique. One thing you can do: don't play with
> fingernails on your
> guitar.
> TW
> Question: given these goals, the fact that I have money and time to spend on
> one technique, does it make some kind of sense to simply learn classical
> guitar technique?
For me, many longstanding difficulties arise from the double strings
(idiosyncratic and precise movement in both hands),
On Thursday 15 September 2005 05:19, jim abraham wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> You're probably getting tired of hearing these kinds of questions, and I am
> going to talk to my teacher (Chris Henrikson) about it on Monday, but in
> the meantime
>
I think nobody will get tired from your questions, so jus
