[geeks] Guitar callouses

[John Duksta]

At 02:10 PM 6/6/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, John Duksta wrote:
> > And my latest hobby (expanding my horizons here) is learning
> > how to play guitar. It's been a month now and I've almost got
> > 2 songs down and the fingertip callouses are coming along nicely.
>
>You know, I've been playing guitar for 10 years now, and I've never had
>any signs of callouses.  Granted, the past 3 or 4 yours I've played very
>little, but before that I played quite a lot.  Maybe it is the fact that I
>play electric with really lite strings, but my first year I played an old
>classical guitar with really thick strings.  I don't know.

I imagine that you're not getting callouses because of the
- light strings on the eletric
- the fact that (IIRC) classical guitars are usually strung with plain
   nylon string (i.e. not wrapped)

I've been playing about an hour or so a day for the last month
on both an el-cheapo Yahama folk acoustic and a beatiful old
early 1960's Guild F-30, both strung with light gauge wound strings.

I just had the F-30 tuned up and it sounds so very sweet. Can't
hammer on it, though. It's definately a guitar for gentle songs.

-john