Affiliations

Postgraduate Researcher at the International Guitar Research Centre

Member of the Cambridge Cohort of Guitar Research

Current Research Areas:

• The history of playing guitar without fingernails (see nonailguitar.com)
• The life of the eccentric poet-guitarist John Roberts (1919-1995)
• The classic banjo, particularly in England

Papers:

An Alternative History of Guitar Playing: No-Nail Players in the Twentieth Century
IGRC Conference, Festival Homenaje, Padua, September 2025

‘The Number of Fools is Infinite!’ The Nail Question in the Nineteenth Century
19th Century Guitar Symposium, Innsbruck, January 2026

Pulp Friction: Discussions and Controversies Surrounding No-Nail Technique
IGRC Conference, Surrey, March 2026

Forthcoming: An Alternative History of Guitar Playing: No-Nail Players in the Twentieth Century
GFA Symposium, Denver, June 2026

Articles:

Alternating Between Flesh and Nail: Is It Possible? (Soundboard, Vol. 52 No. 1, 2026)

Historical Evidence for Using the Right Hand Little Finger (nonailguitar.com)