Hi All, I am enjoying this thread... I am awaiting a baroque guitar being made for me by Michael Schreiner. The instrument should be ready by the summer. I got tired of playing a converted modern guitar and visited Paul Shipper, who was very helpful and kind, with the purpose of checking out his jarano, Anyway, I tried Paul's 1690 Voboam made by Michael Schreiner and flipped at the beautiful tone, even with my rather long nails. I have since shortened my nails, gradually over the past few months, in anticipation of my new instrument! Maybe I'll clip my nails as an experiment, when I have away from my Ruck.
Mark Delpriora co-chair,guitar department, Manhattan School of Music In a message dated 03/26/06 3:30:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > When I play lutes with courses I do not use nails, >though. Rodney Stuckey, who lives around these parts, >does play lute and baroque guitar with nails. Again, >he achieves such a warm tone that I've had to actually >look while he plays to confirm that those nails are >there. > I think much of it has to do with the individual >player. It is more difficult to achieve a >satisfactory tone with nails, but a refined performer >is going to spend a great deal of mental effort on >developing his or her tone whether they are using >nails or not. > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
