----- Original Message ----- From: bill kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, October 8, 2005 4:26 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: New Boy's Ungrateful Response to Free Advice (Re: New Boy wants lute)
> perhaps collective wisdom will instruct new boy on the > proper method of trimming his fingernails. If he intends to use them, he shouldn't trim them at all, but should file them with relatively fine emery boards and cosmetic nail buffers. I keep relatively short nails for use on modern guitar, but favor less nail on early strings, so my nails (at least p, i, and m) are strongly tapered down on the attack side. I would do the same on a and c, but my a and c nails have a rather strong curl that is not conducive to the shape. For something similar, you can see Scott Tennant's _Pumping_Nylon_. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
