On Dec 15, 2013, at 1:01 PM, "Chris Barker" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tarrega taught Pujol to play with nailess right hand
> fingertips, and Pujol passed that technique on to others.  I presume that
> Segovia's use of nails, and increased volume of his instrument because of
> that, might have gotten him bigger audiences.

Segovia's "Autobiography of the Years 1893-1920" says Llobet  and Tarrega never 
played concert halls because they were convinced that the guitar wouldn't be 
heard in one.  

In the next paragraph, he talks of playing at the Palau, a hall that "seated 
over a thousand persons!"  He then says, "Pujol — not the musicologist, but the 
managing director of the Palau — arranged to meet with me…"

That offhand reference to "the musicologist" is the only mention of Emilio 
Pujol in the book.  


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