And, saliva has the advantage of being applicable to Catspaw's activity as well...

(I've been lurking on this thread because I'm going through some of the same dilemma. Have been trying to learn to hold the pick and the guitar always sounds over-powering to me no matter how I use the pick. Then my friend the guitarist insists that I use a pick because ... I've never really figured out why he thinks I simply MUST have a pick. Isn't it ok sometimes to just plunk around pick-less?)

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