Ed Durbrow wrote:
On Oct 7, 2009, at 2:18 AM, Guy Smith wrote:
. I located my notes, and it was a
nylon G string, which makes more sense. AFAIK, the feather was just a
decoration.
When I did a workshop with him several years ago he didn't have a
feather on the guitar string but a triangle of paper or something. He
said that it was so if he dropped it, he could find it.
I still don't understand why Crawford Young is using a guitar string as
a plectrum! I'm not a plectrum player so I have no axe to grind at all.
It's just that all the plectra I've ever seen have not been anything
like a guitar string (nor a wrong-way-around feather). Even plastic
risha or the little plastic plectra for the saz are not as flexible -
nor as small - as a guitar string.
Is Crawford Young seeing something in the music (15th century and back)
- or the instrument (lute/gittern)- or the music on the instrument that
need this kind of plectrum?
And - it's a small point - if Crawford is using a guitar string because
feathers wear out quickly, doesn't this slightly suggest that players at
the time would have used something else, something a bit more functional?
Stuart
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