"I always thought that playing with those steel finger pick things sounded like throwing a harpsichord down the stairs."

Sir Thomas Beecham once said 'A harpsichord sounds like a bird cage being played with a toasting fork'!!


Fingerpicks I've never been able to get on with, and I only use a (nylon) plectrum on my mandolin. I play guitar and five string banjo with my fingers (fingernails if I have them!!).