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Re: What's your favorite movie soundtrack? Black Orpheus! Music by Luis Bonfa (Manha de Carnival) arranged for guitar by Baden Powell, and Antonio Carlos Jobim (Felicidade) arranged for guitar in the incredible masterpiece of Roland Dyens.…
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- 3 mths ago
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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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- 3 mths 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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- 3 mths 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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- 3 mths 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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- 5 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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- 7 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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- 8 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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- 9 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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- 10 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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- 11 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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- 1 yr 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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- 1 yr 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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- 1 yr 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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- 1 yr 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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- 1 yr 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.
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- 1 yr 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.
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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.…
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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.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: What Guitar do you play? @don Thank you.
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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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