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Re: OT strummin' on the old banjo

From:Douglas Koller <laokou@...>
Date:Saturday, September 8, 2007, 20:30
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>

> In guitar-playing circles, at least IME, "strum" is a technical term > referring to multi-string sweeps, regardless of implement or lack > thereof. True "plucking" is done with the fingers, while "picking" is > done with the plectrum (hence its popular name "pick"), although the > latter distinction is somehat blurred by the use of finger picks > (which are worn as rings on the tips of the fingers), which are > especially popular with steel strings.
Those are kewl. When I was taking pipa lessons for all of three months back when I lived in mainland China, you taped picks to your fingers. Great look! Fu Manchu meets Vampira from "Plan 9." Kou