Klarinet Archive - Posting 000098.txt from 2002/12

From: Wayne P Hill <thanos563@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Guitar(was:Benefit of taking time off)
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:49:39 -0500

When you first begin playing the guitar the pressure of your fingers
pressing against the metal strings can often be quite painful until one
develops a healthy set of callouses on the tips of their fingers. Not
the pads that are used to cover the tone holes of a clarinet but the very
tips themselves, particulary where the nail ends and the fleshy part of
the finger begins. If you look at the fingers of a guitarist you will
see the callouses can be quite thick...this is especially evident
immediately after he/she has been playing when you will see the "dents"
formed by the strings, especially the thinner E, B, and G.

Wayne
On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 09:10:26 -0800 Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
writes:
> Here is a subject I don't ever recall seeing before. Why would
> anyone want
> calluses on their fingertips? Seems to me that would make it harder
> to seal
> the toneholes. This should be something painful.
>
> Gary

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