Dear All:
Might I suggest that a culture sophisticated enough to build lutes and
craft overwound strings could have figured out a way to file and polish
their nails.
Jim Stimson
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-------- Original message --------
From: John Mardinly <john.mardi...@asu.edu>
Date: 5/6/19 6:51 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: Roland Hayes <rha...@legalaidbuffalo.org>
Cc: Lute List <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: De Visee
More lacking than glue-on-nails might have been some of the modern
files and abrasives used to polish the nails. Badly prepared nails give
a terrible result for both sound and playability. My teacher back in
1965 had studied with Segovia, and showed me how Segovia prepared his
nails: after some filing, he used a wooden block with a saw-cut slot in
it and a piece of chamois wrapped around the wooden block. The nail was
then rubbed back and forth on the chamois over the slot, which acted as
a track to guide the nail. When I began to study metallurgy and the art
of cross-sectioning and polishing metals to view their microstructure,
I experienced a revolution in materials to polish the nails that were
quickly adopted by many people playing with nails.
A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E.
> On May 6, 2019, at 3:34 PM, Roland Hayes <rha...@legalaidbuffalo.org>
wrote:
>
> Do we think he played with nails? Lutenists did not as I
understand,
> but
>
> I have always thought his lute pieces were merely arrangements of
> guitar/theorbo pieces. For those instruments we can establish the
use
> of nails.
>
> And if deVisee played guitar with nails, then he most likely played
> theorbo with nails as well. Yes? Glue on nails had yet to arrive on
the
> scene.
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