Huntingdonshire Music School Association

Choosing between long and short nails for playing Classical Guitar | Classical Guitar Home: Classical Guitar Home • The Blog • Sheet Music • Videos • Contact The debate over long or short nails has raged since the dawn of the classical guitar and the right answer to this question is ‘It doesn’t matter’. But there are differences between the two styles and some things you should know before you decide which is right for you. Some classical guitarists prefer to pluck the strings with the nails of their right hand while other guitarists prefer to keep their nails trimmed and to pluck the strings with the tips of their fingers. If you are a beginner classical guitarist you might be wondering which way you should play. You can start with no nails at all playing like that for one year or so.In that way you will find the right attack of the fingers. Only after that you could let them to grow. Here are some insights about each way so you can make a decision as to which style is right for you…

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Extract taken from article on CreativeGuitar.org blog

Huntingdon Community Radio has been broadcasting for short periods of time under temporary licenses for 13 years now. In fact during the run up to the Big 4-0 (the 40th anniversary of the Huntingdonshire Music School) two of us were interviewed on air about the music school and the musical daftness we get up to.

They will be applying for full-time license from OFCOM - the last time a full-time license will be advertised for this area for some time. They need support to be able to apply for this additional capability for Huntingdonshire.

There’s a public meeting on Wednesday 1st October 2008 at 7pm at the George Hotel in Huntingdon to try and get support. Please turn up and show support as this benefits not only us in the music school but everyone else in the area covered (St. Neots, St. Ives, Godmanchester and Ramsey). If you can’t attend then you can listen live online through your browser if you point it at the home page for the radio station (below).

See the Huntingdon Community Radio website.

For the last few summers we’ve organised trips at the beginning of the summer holidays. These are always lively and consist of a mixture of performance, sight-seeing and plain old social relaxation. To date we’ve been to Wertheim (Germany)/Paris [2006], Kirchheim (Austria) [2007] and this summer we travelled to the Isle of Man [2008].

The planning is now well under way for the 2009 trip to Norfolk and is open to anyone at the school. Not everyone who goes on these trips plays - they tend to be very much family affairs. As Norfolk is relatively close to home it will enable some to join us for a short time and return home. This hasn’t been possible for the longer trips overseas and as a result some folks have missed out.

The likely locations are:-

• Forum (Norwich library)
• St Stephen"s Church, Norwich
• Aylsham Church - joint performance with The Ipswich & Norwich Brass Band
• Mannington Hall & Gardens