Ricardo -> RE: my life is over. (Oct. 19 2007 20:57:42)
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ORIGINAL: Taranto I play without nails because it sounds more flamenco, especially thumb with little to no nail produces a click sound, something like percussion. To make my case stronger I like to add that Manolo Sanlucar, Miguel de la Bastide and probably a few other guitarists play with little to no nail. Are you sure you are not exaggerating? I mean NO nails means you play with only skin. That is a very muddy sound, no flamenco guitarist I know gets that sound. Actually if you hear Chiquitos de Algeciras, there was one piece where Paco has no thumb nail, it is real obvious. Boink boink...It sounds BAD. The rest of the pieces sound nice and bright, so he must have broke it during the session. Tarrega played with NO nails. To do that you must develop thick padded callouses on the tips of the fingers. But there is a big difference between that and SHORT nails. Manolo Sanlucar has a particularily LONG thumb nail. Check some vids on youtube. His other nails are the normal length filed nicely. Hopefully you mean you play with very short nails, which is just fine IMO. And when accidents happen, pro players have to make do with what they have got until it grows back. I have met guitarists with almost no nails, who on a later occasion had very long nails. It is easy to get used to longer and longer nails if you dont' keep filing them everyday. And guitarists that only accompany cante for example, sometimes get away with only having a thumb nail sticking out.
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