“Additionally, in spite of my present state of health, I continue cutting my fingernails. I believe that you will not be seduced by the enemies of the sweetest sounds of the guitar.” We have been unable to find any recordings by Pepita Roca. If you know of one, please let us know. Emilio Pujol wrote a Homage to Pepita Roca, called Becqueriana – the title referring to Gustavo Adolpho Becquer, the late 19th-century post-Romanticist writer, who was to prove influential to early 20th-century Spanish writers, artists and musicians. ========================== Vahdah Olcott-Bickford Sadly there are no recordings of this giant of the American classical guitar. Founder of The American Guitar Society, which eventually became the Los Angeles Guitar Society (1923). Excel template for panduit labels templates. The following bold statement comes from her 94th year: “My husband said, “Tell them the truth, that in all your life, you have never clawed at a guitar with your talons!” All of my concert playing in the largest concert halls such as New York’s Town Hall, was done with my fingers, never with nails.

At my great sold-out concert in Town Hall, Mr. Frederick Martin (now head of the Martin Company) was in the audience (though I didn’t know it, nor him, though I knew his father).

Emilio pujol guitar school pdf can configure emilio pujol guitar school pdf file size, emilio pujol guitar school pdf, and other emilio pujol guitar school pdf features. Your avatar is displayed on the left, while the right contains links for new messages and new comments. If you are a school or institution please read about our Schools Subscription If you prefer to subscribe. All 8notes.com PDF files, all 8notes.com Subscription Only pieces. What subscription. By Emilio Pujol Vilarrubi (1886-1980).

He had recently graduated from Yale. He sent a note to my dressing room, saying that he had never before heard such a wonderfully toned Martin Guitar, and asked whether he might examine it, which he did with great pleasure. This was one of the countless experiences that have proven to me, though my half-century career, that nails do not make it louder, only tinnier, and more metallic sounding. Magnum est veritas et prevailabit: “The purer the tone, the better it carries.” Nail-players should not criticize plectrum players, since they themselves are playing with plectra grown on the fingers!

How about the queenly Italian harp? Clawing with nails would not get far in that realm! Yet the soft, pure tones of the harp carry over a 100-piece Symphony Orchestra, because of their sweet purity. “Normal finger players have been mostly run over by the clawing juggernaut, only a few having the courage and fortitude to keep the faith, against an avalanche of clawers, who loudly ballyhoo that clawing is the only way.

A thousand wrongs cannot overturn one right, and all the darkness in the world (or beneath it) cannot extinguish the beautiful light of one small candle. The clawing syndrome has become an epidemic in America, but I am told it is not so in Europe, at least not nearly to the extent prevalent in our country.” ========================== Virginia Luque Virginia is a world-class talent, a virtuoso guitarist, without question, and also a conductor.

She plays a 1933 Hauser I guitar. Read my interview with her. “among the best guitarists I’ve ever seen” – Jorge Morel Watch this stunning performance.

Absolutely love this new site! I’ve had a number of students over the years that had trouble growing nails and I could never give them the proper technical support they needed to get them to play with good tone.

This site I hope will become a big help for nail-less CG players. I was particularly fascinating with your section on famous nail-less players and I’m sorry to deliver possible bad news but I don’t think Sharon Isbin or Roland Dyens currently play without nails, and I offer up these videos as proof if you look very closely at the Right Hand(s) of each. Best of luck on your new site, Ray Like. Hi Rob, as I have seen you have already the names that I gave you. But there occurres a small mistake. Schwarz-Reiflingen mentions Fortea NOT Cubedo.

Something else there sometimes is repeated the “fact” that Cubedo won the genf Competition against Williams. This is not true, Williams simply did not appear.

I will send you some photos of Sch.R. If you also think of players of other styles we should mention Joe Pass ( CD Songs for Ellen completely on a nylon string guitar, if I remeber right. Also he recorded some duos with Ella Fitzgerald.) And there are nylon string recordings by Pat Matheny and John Scofield (Quiet) Of course Eric Clapton did some nylon stuff and so on Best wishes Andreas Like. Hi Rob, Thank you so much for taking the time to put together this website; it’s a wonderful resource for those of us trying to learn to play the guitar with no nails.