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Topic: Position of Finger Picks Poll |
Kenny Radas
From:
Edwardsville,IL,USA
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Posted 13 Dec 2005 8:29 am |
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| Just curious to how high on the tips or down low toward the first knuckle everyone wears their finger picks. Also curious if the size of your fingers dictates where you wear them. I have pretty small hands and I am more of an up near the top of the finger player. Mine ride on the tips with the bands about at the bottom of my fingernail. Thanks for the replies. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 13 Dec 2005 12:27 pm
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I wear mine quite close to the ends of my fingers so I can feel the strings and I like to play with light gauge Dunlop picks; .018 or .020 gauge.
Erv |
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David Wren
From:
Placerville, California, USA
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Posted 13 Dec 2005 12:36 pm
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Down pretty snug, and plastic - all 3 of them.
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Dave Wren
'95Carter S12-E9/B6,7X7; Session500; Hilton Pedal
www.ameechapman.com
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 13 Dec 2005 12:46 pm
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| Large fingers, fat fingertips, so the band nestles right behind the widest part of the nail. Permanent dents in the fingers at the sides of each fingernail. [This message was edited by Ray Minich on 13 December 2005 at 12:47 PM.] |
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 13 Dec 2005 1:03 pm
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Question:
curved or straight???[This message was edited by Randy Reeves on 13 December 2005 at 01:03 PM.] |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 13 Dec 2005 1:11 pm
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Straight, with about 1/8"-3/16" of the tips exposed.
How should you wear yours?
Wherever it's comfortable! |
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Kenny Radas
From:
Edwardsville,IL,USA
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Posted 13 Dec 2005 1:12 pm
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| Forgot to add I wear mine pretty straight. Seems to get a better attack on the string. |
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Chris Erbacher
From:
Sausalito, California, USA
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Posted 13 Dec 2005 1:17 pm
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| mine are slightly curved and worn with my finger almost to the end of the part that actually touches the strings. when i started, people were telling me that i had to change the way i wore my picks while playing banjo, and that they wouldn't work like that for steel, but i just couldn't get a good feeling for the strings unless i had my fingers really crammed into them. to each his own. my fingers are small and i palm block. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 13 Dec 2005 3:23 pm
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| Way up on my fingers. About 1/8 inch sticks out. Very slightly curved. And I wear them skewed off-center so they hit the strings dead-on flat. My index fingerpick is a two-sided pick that I made 25 years ago. An extra blade silver-soldered onto another whole pick. |
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Chris Erbacher
From:
Sausalito, California, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2005 5:57 pm
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| i'm curious what that two sided pick looks like, do you have a pic or two? |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2005 6:15 pm
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| I have no clue how to post a picture! too computer illiterate! But I took two picks, and cut the finger tabs off one of them, just leaving the blade. Then I soldered them together at the very tips. I have always played both steel and guitar, and I've always been a finger-picker. The two sided pick actually works best on six-string, as it allows me to, strange as it may seem, grip that two-sided pick just like a flat-pick giving me the best of both worlds. the ability to finger-pick or flat-pick without changing anything! |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2005 6:22 pm
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| Chris, I just sent you a pic via email. Post it if you know how! JB |
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Ken Williams
From:
Arkansas
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Posted 15 Dec 2005 2:28 pm
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I wear my picks way out on the tips of my fingers and pretty straight. It makes them hard to keep on. I've been asked why I wear them so far out, but really didn't have an answer other than, they just feel right. Then I read Erv's post and it got me to thinking. Maybe the reason is so I can feel the strings better. I'm just wondering if the very tips of the fingers have more touch receptors than a little farther up toward the first knuckle. I've always heard that the thumb had more receptors than the fingers, thus we many times feel the texture of a fabric with our thumbs. But, I don't know this for a fact, just heard that somewhere.
Maybe I'm just fishing for answers as to why they feel right so far out on the tips of my fingers.
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 15 Dec 2005 2:33 pm
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Are you guys still wearing finger picks?
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Bill Moran
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2005 7:32 pm
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If I ever get to wear my picks again I will make a post. Waiting on my new HWP guitar from Herby. Guess I will play Blue Christmas on my Tele. 
Bill |
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Barry Brown
From:
Calhoun, Georgia, USA
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Posted 16 Dec 2005 6:29 pm
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MR Bobbe,
What do you use?
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 17 Dec 2005 5:18 am
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I have it on good authority that Bobbe wears false nails superglued to his own. They are filed to the correct shape and then varnished to a wonderful shade of pink.
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John Lockney
From:
New Market, Maryland, USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2005 4:51 am
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There is a cool video of Bobbe Seymour's right hand on his site!
http://www.bobbeseymour.com/watch.html
[This message was edited by John Lockney on 30 December 2005 at 05:08 AM.] |
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Bob Snelgrove
From:
san jose, ca
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Posted 30 Dec 2005 9:16 am
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Bobbe playing a Franklin there? Fretborad looks like it could be; no colored Emmons atoms?
bob |
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