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Violinists and pianists also have to keep their finger nails clipped because nails get in the way of hitting the key/string properly. Interestingly, this is opp
by Centigonal 12y ago
Violinists and pianists also have to keep their finger nails clipped because nails get in the way of hitting the key/string properly. Interestingly, this is opposite to some guitar/banjo/mandolin players, who keep their nails long to help with picking, as mentioned above.
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- napoleond 12y agoThis is the height of pedantry (and I apologize), but guitar/banjo/mandolin players are not really "opposite" to violinists--they all need to keep the fingernails of their fingerboard hands short. The difference is that the former may choose to keep the nails of their picking fingers long, whereas the fingernail length of a violinists' bow hand is almost inconsequential.