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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 14 Jan 2006 21:49:04 -0800, wrote:

Don White wrote:
Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:

i wonder how long i can keep this thread alive....

At the risk of sounding wimpy......
ever see some kind of finger thimble that a person could use to keep
your fingers from touching two strings at once?
I'm thinking of something plastic that would go over your 4 frettin'
fingers.

Tommy Iommi was the guitarist for Black Sabbath, and he lost a cople
fingertips in a butcher shop meat saw. He tired fingertip prosthysis,
but that didnt' work well because he couldn't feel the strings with his
left hand. So...

he did without them, and so far (almost 40 years) he's done pretty
good for himself.

jerry garcia was missing a finger on his fret hand, django reinhardt
had two fingers paralyzed on his fret hand and came up with a
completely unique way of presenting jazz guitar. there are a couple
of others with fret hand injuries that I can't think of at the moment,
but they are big time players.

its your music - make it happen.

Jerry was missing the driving finger.