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Carles Trepat has a new video out. Just gorgeous: Thanks to Tate Harmann for alerting me to this talk on nails and the lute. The nail debate in the lute world is the inverse of the guitar world — i.e. there’s a prejudice against nails. The first half of the video gives an excellent historical…

Happy New Year to all! Brandon Acker has a new video comparing the loudness of nail and flesh techniques. As expected, he finds no significant difference in volume. It’s a common misconception that playing without nails means a reduction in volume (i.e. decibels); what it actually means is a change in frequencies (to generalize, the…

Four new historic players and new living players added to the list!

New players added to list: Foden, Dorn, Janse, Schettler, Meissonnier, Sendis & Pratten

Article in Classical Guitar Corner, new page on gut & nylgut strings, and details on changes to the Players page.

I added a page for Daniel Fortea.