Articles:
Alternating Between Nail and Flesh: Is it Possible? (Soundboard, March 2026)
Historical Evidence for Using the Right Hand Little Finger
A very brief history of no-nail guitar
Videos
A History of Playing Classical Guitar Without Nails
A history of using the right-hand little finger on classical guitar
How to Alternate Between Flesh and Nail
Interview on The Life of Emilio Pujol (Ian Watt’s podcast Unwound)
Interview on 20th Century No-Nail Guitar (Unwound)
Papers:
Alpine Hats, Abbreviated Trousers and Long Fingernails: The Nail Question and Guitar Pedagogy c. 1800-1950 [Abstract]
Cambridge Cohort for Guitar Research 2026 Colloquium, Emmanuel College, September 2026
An Alternative History of Guitar Playing: No-Nail Players in the Twentieth Century [Abstract]
GFA Symposium, Denver, June 2026
Pulp Friction: Discussions and Controversies Surrounding No-Nail Technique
IGRC Conference, Surrey, March 2026
‘The Number of Fools is Infinite!’ The Nail Question in the Nineteenth Century [Abstract]
19th Century Guitar Symposium, Innsbruck, January 2026
An Alternative History of Guitar Playing: No-Nail Players in the Twentieth Century [Abstract]
IGRC Conference, Festival Homenaje, Padua, September 2025
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