Are you a plectrum player?

[Roland]

My friend here in the Midwest likes to call it a plectrum. I think that he thinks it makes him sound sophisticated. I like to tell him, " lets get down and do some flatplectruming."

 

[Nuuska]

Not really. We called the little things you play guitar with, plectrums in the UK, back in the early days. I still call them that. Much prefer that than the pick word.

The booklet was aimed at getting people acoustic guitar players to start using plectrums instead of finger style playing.

Ivor opened the first specialist guitar shop in London, back in 1958. l believe it closed a couple of years ago.

Mairants is gone - Mack's Guitars is in

 

[lungimsam]

I use a plectrum 97% of the time these days. Does that make me a plectrist?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I use a plectrum 97% of the time these days. Does that make me a plectrist?

You can plectrum your friends, and you can plectrum your nose, but you can't plectrum your friend's nose.

 

[fronobulax]

You can plectrum your friends, and you can plectrum your nose, but you can't plectrum your friend's nose.

Actually you can, but if you do, they are probably not your friend anymore.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Actually you can, but if you do, they are probably not your friend anymore.

He thinks he's a friend, but he's snot.

 

[fronobulax]

He thinks he's a friend, but he's snot.

I think you win because I can't remember hearing that one before.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I think you win because I can't remember hearing that one before.

Yup. I win the Stupid Joke of the Day award. Yay.

 

[Midnight Toker]

Hybrid picking....for the win!

I'm sure lots of folks here once used a "plectrum". But then the latter half of the 20th century came and went, and with it came what is now overwhelmingly referred to as simply, a guitar pick. (My grandmother also used to call her underwear knickers. It's still correct, just majorly outdated. ) If anyone ever asks me for a plectrum, and no one ever has in my lifetime, upon handing it to them, I'll fully expect them to start playing Sweet Georgia Brown. Anything more recent, and I'll take my damn pick back.