On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:08:55 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 4/23/2016 5:11 PM, wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 14:07:08 -0700, gtr > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2016-04-23 10:08:29 +0000, said:
>>>
>>>> Prince could have been a great rock guitarist.
>>>
>>> He *could* have been a great rock guitarist when he was 13. So in his
>>> early 30's, he was a great rock guitarist.
>>
>> If I think great guitarist, I think Segovia or John Williams - they
>> really had to play, no electrics making it easy for them!
>>
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>
>You have too think of the acoustic and electrics as different
>instruments, despite the common name. Some people play both well, but a
>few really excel on one version or the other. I'd not think of the
>electric as easier aside from the fact it can make louder volume easier
>through an amp.
>
>Segovia would not play the music of the modern electric guitarist anyway
>so you cannot compare them head on. I find this interesting:
>
>His teaching style is a source of controversy among some of his former
>students, who considered it to be dogmatically authoritarian.[40] One of
>Segovia's most celebrated former students of the classical guitar, John
>Williams, has said that Segovia bullied students into playing only his
>style, stifling the development of their own styles.[41][42] Williams
>has also said that Segovia was dismissive of music that did not have
>what Segovia considered the right classical origins, such as South
>American music with popular roots.[41]
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Segovia

I simply enjoy listening to both