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| Dickey500 |
Posted - 01/29/2003 : 10:56:59 PM
OK, I was visiting Charlottesville last night and managed to catch a two-man bluegrass/blues act called the Banty Roosters. Anywho...the guitar player had cut up ping pong balls and crazy-glued them to his fingernails to use as picks...it was friggin crazy! Anyone ever heard of this technique (or anything similar)? |
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| Dickey500 |
Posted - 02/02/2003 : 11:45:16 PM
Kinda - just picture long, white, clear nail polish-covered fingernails. I can't imagine walking around with them all day though... |
| PJK |
Posted - 02/02/2003 : 2:40:35 PM
I still can't quite picture this. Like claws?????? Strange.
And I thought seeing Tony Levins funk fingers were strange. |
| tericee |
Posted - 01/29/2003 : 11:12:45 PM
A fingerpicker named John Renbourn uses ping pong balls also.
"He grows his normal nails out substantially, but doesn't pick with them. He glues contoured pieces of ping-pong balls to the underside of the natural nails. This gives him consistent tone from one finger to the next, and the nails' support behind the ping-pong balls as he picks. John is also very careful with his hands in everyday life; something all fingerpickers should be aware of. "
ref http://www.accentonmusic.com/article_1.html |
