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Re: Which guitar player from the past would you love to meet? @Michelle Roper John Williams. It was in a party after an astounding performance. He was very calm, quiet and gentlemanly.
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- 12 hrs ago
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Re: Which guitar player from the past would you love to meet? I have met Andres Segovia, Julian Bream and John Williams.
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- 18 hrs ago
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Re: What is the longest you've ever gone without your guitar? @Mark de Beer I went on a 9 week trip around the world 25 years ago and got a Soloette. It was easy to carry, but I hated it. My wife wants to go on more trips, so I got the Yamaha and yes,…
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- 13 days ago
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Re: What is your favorite time of day to practice and why? I start reading my email and news after breakfast with my hand in an electric glove to warm it up. I am a long-time tendinitis sufferer. Then I will have another session after dinner.
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: What Nail Products Do You Use? I use Stew-Mac brush-on superglue to reinforce just the corners of my nails:…
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- 4 mths ago
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Re: Dupuytren's Disease and Trigger Fingers Sad to hear of you troubles. I have struggled with tendinitis for decades plus chondromalacia (bruising of cartilage) in my right index finger. Heat therapy has been a huge help.…
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- 4 mths ago
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Re: Left Hand issues. 62 years practice here: Try practicing in front of a mirror. Do it slowly. Then you can see your fingers popping up and consciously try to relax them so they don't pop up.…
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- 6 mths ago
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Re: What Non-Classical Musicians Inspire You? Astor Piazzolla, BB King...that's about all.
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- 7 mths ago
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune I played a Velazquez with crudely made Landstorfer tuners for 50 years, then got a Cooper double top with Rodgers tuners 5 years ago. I always used Savarez B520 strings.…
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Fingernail Problems and possible solutions I take biotin, 10,000 mcg daily. Also helps to get a double top guitar-the increased responsiveness put less stress on the nails. Also, wear gloves on the right hand when doing sports, swimming,…
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: Memorization in Classical Guitar Performance What about iPads with bluetooth page turners? When I was using paper sheet music, I was more dependent on memory partly because I could not turn pages while playing.…
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- 9 mths ago
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Re: any good recommendations for sandpaper or cloth for filing your nails? Many Czech ground glass nail files in Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=ground+glass+nail+file&crid=6OUTS2LW5TTO&sprefix=ground+glass+nail+file%2Caps%2C170&ref=nb_sb_noss
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: any good recommendations for sandpaper or cloth for filing your nails? BTW, in between, use gloves for any activity that might damage the nails. I worked on cars, motorcycles, repairing electron microscopes etc, for decades and never hurt my nails.…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: any good recommendations for sandpaper or cloth for filing your nails? I use a glass file, made in Czech republic, and 3M 'Wet-or-Dry' papers that I find in auto shops for body work. After fine emery boards, I use 1,000 grit followed by 1,500 grit.…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: What is your favorite time of day to practice and why? I suffer from chronic tendinitis, so I warm up my hands with electric gloves while going through my email, which usually takes the whole morning.
- John Mardinly
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- 11 mths ago
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Re: Tell us about a concert or musical event that has profoundly impacted you! Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, I first heard around 1975. I have never heard any musician on any instrument filling the hall with such electrifying passion and virtuosity.
- John Mardinly
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Is there a Video of a Performance that you CANNOT stop watching? Edson Lopes-Bach Toccata and Fugue in Dm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojBYW3ycVTE
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: If you could master the technique of any guitarist, living or dead, who would it be and why? @Robert St Cyr I just returned from a trip to Italy which started in Venice, and in some research before I left, I learned that these had been a European conference on new music in Venice in 1932.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: If you could master the technique of any guitarist, living or dead, who would it be and why? @Robert St Cyr I saw Stephane Grappelli playing with Dave Grissman at the Almaden winery in California numerous times. Yes indeed-pure magic! The last time I saw him he sat while he played instead of…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: If you could master the technique of any guitarist, living or dead, who would it be and why? Andres Segovia or John Williams for technique, Julian Bream for musical esthetics. I once sat front row center in Ann Arbor for a Bream-Williams duo concert.…
- John Mardinly
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Guitar sizing I custom ordered my Jeremy Cooper double top to be a 640 with the primary thought being to have lower string tension to alleviate the chronic tendinitis I have had since 1976,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: What's the most challenging piece you've ever learned and how did you tackle it? @Sam Greenblatt Masochistic! Made me laugh. Big disappointment was I loved the melody, and the story of Aphonsina was so poignant and sad.
- John Mardinly
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: What Guitar do you play? @don Thank you.
- John Mardinly
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: What Guitar do you play? @Barney Yes, Rey de la Torre was probably the first prominent guitarist to be crippled by focal dystonia. He recovered from that with the help of a wonderful physical therapist, who he married,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: What Guitar do you play? @Barney No, it was terrible. Terribly sad. He was crippled with rheumatoid arthritis, could barely walk, could not play at all and was severely depressed by it all, small wonder.
- John Mardinly
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- 1 yr ago
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