Do longer finger nails make pizz. sound different?

[Richard Prowse]

Originally Posted by Paul Warburton

I can't imagine playing with the inside edges of fingernails.
One thing I do do (the voodoo that I do do so well) is something I copped from my mentor Red Mitchell. When I want a different color during a solo I will use the back (or, the surface) of my index finger nail to get a more intense kind of ""zing" on a particular note for color. That attack makes a note stick out real nice now and then.

Interesting.
I've actually got way past the finger nail thing, though I was only thinking of the nail as a finger stiffener (I don't think I spelt that right), not something to actually strike the string with.