Hey, did a little research about the portuguese guitars. Players never don't play directly with the finger tips, but with the nails. Even then, many choose to use fingerpicks and not the natural nail. These picks were traditionally chiseled from tortoiseshell, but are now made from various plastics. Hope this clears things up. I doubt it's healthy or practical to play with the fingertips. Pretty sure that would cause scarring and abnormal amounts of calluses, in turn making playing hard.
On Sat, Jul 7, 2018, 01:20 SW <[1][email protected]> wrote: I play wire-strung instruments with the same technique as lute or early guitar. I mean lightly built, lightly strung instruments (English guitar, bandora etc) not modern heavily built instruments strung with the sort of wire that Batman's Joker uses to bring down airliners. On 6 July 2018, at 17:07, Tristan von Neumann <[2][email protected]> wrote: How do you play on double metal strings? I recently tried to play lute pieces on a 12 string guitar, but I almost got blisters... I imagine on a small instrument the strings a thin and have quite some tension? What's Your technique? Am 05.07.2018 um 23:04 schrieb G. C.: > Hi All, > after attending a concert including a portuguise guitar, I was > positively surprised to realise, that this rare metal strung instrument > is also traditionally played using the thumb-in technique! > And after aquiring a Yamaha G1 guitalele, I was equally surprised, that > I could play difficult lute pieces satisfactorily on such a tiny and > cheap instrument. (Getting a noticeable pain in the left wrist > afterwards though, which was quite a deception!) > G. > > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
