Re: Not another pick thread
Another pick thread ... sigh ... but this time, one I can relate to.
I've mentioned elsewhere, for the mandolin I use a pretty thick Dunlop, 1.5mm I think (it's been used so long the printing is worn off and the point is starting to get too rounded to be useful anymore). But for my steel tenor guitar, I use something bigger and a little thinner, about 1mm and triangular. I've got a Tyler Mountain promo pick, heavy, 1-14"/3.5 cm on a side, and a Clayton 1mm same size my fiddler/guitarist wasn't using. I'm not sure why, something to do with the strings being further apart I suppose.
Funny thing happened the other night at a gig. Our first song used the mandolin, so I was using that Dunlop. The second song called for the tenor, so I switched over, with the pick still in my hand. Just after we started I heard something a little wrong, then I felt the triangular pick still in the strings! I kept going while I nudged the pick onto the ground with my left hand - and managed to find it when we were wrapping up. Funny as that was, it was funnier still that I didn't really notice a big difference betwen the picks. Well, OK, I did, but it worked fine. I'm still more comfortable with the larger pick for the tenor. I think it's really that it gives me a larger target to work with, and I'm still (always gonna be) less familiar with the tenor than the mandolin. Plus being slightly thinner it helps lessen the brittleness.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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