On 28 March 2012 01:19, David Tayler <[email protected]> wrote: > However, since there are no nails players today (that I know of, please > point me there!) that play on gut strings
I did for a while. I found wear and tear to be less bad than I expected, but changed to no-nails for more variety in tone colour and dynamics. And I went down in string tension, and found that to go better with n-nails. But I loved nails. Nails were great for a clear and strong tone. Singing quality. Amplifier on clean and 11: no distortion but a sining tone! More sustain in my ears, but that might have been between my ears. Nails on gut on a theorbo are a historic option (and by extenion on baroque guitar, as b-guitar was often played by theorbo players, if I have my facts straight here), just as they are on Romantic guitar. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
