News from No-Nails & A Letter from America
Extra points to whoever gets the references in the title of this newsletter. I was trying to think of some puns, and I’m afraid this is the best I could do. Unlike the protagonist of William Morris’s novel, we have not awoken into a guitar-utopia where none use fingernails or…
Interview on Emilio Pujol
Ian Watt invited me on his podcast to discuss the life of Emilio Pujol, who was, among many other things, the most important advocate for no-nail playing in the twentieth century. Many interesting points were discussed; Ian is always a wonderful interlocutor:
News Roundup
Joaquín Panadés has a particularly wonderful new video out. He’s playing Llobet’s famous transcription of Granados’s La Maja de Goya. Without nails, of course. And on a Torres guitar once owned by Llobet: I made a video on the various ways one can alternate between flesh and nail. Not only…
News Roundup
Let’s begin with a a quadrumvirate of no-nailers (though there is some cheating, as it were, with plectra in the first half!) In the latest issue of Soundboard I have an article on the ways you can alternate between flesh and nail. Yes, it is possible! And there are various…
Interview
Ian Watt interviewed me for his podcast Unwound. We mostly talked about 20th century no-nail playing, with some enjoyable digressions. It was a fun conversation indeed. Do watch, and also check out Ian’s recordings — he is an astonishing player!
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