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I started out playing fingerstyle exclusively long before taking up swing and have played just about every style on my Dunn Daphne since getting it about 20 years ago. For a while it was the guitar I took to restaurant gigs because it can handle just about anything--on the way to a Djangofest Northwest, I also fitted in a slack key workshop with Cyril Pahinui, who kinda razzed me about the guitar, but it managed that style adequately. (Though my Goodall would have sounded sweeter.) But then, Michael Dunn's voicings have always tended to go beyond dry-and-cutting.
Didn't Mr. Bireli Lagrene for years play a detuned piece at concerts and on recordings?? I played the Bach Cello Suites in college on a nylon where I tuned the low string to C to get all the notes. Then I often did a movement on my 7 string dell arte as a part of concerts/shows. I recently revisited this on my @paulmcevoy75 both fingerstyle and with a pick. Both sounded great. While i miss this music- It would take a few years to really work these up again. (great sight reading practice for bass clef - the the violin suites for treble. . .). Perhaps someday I'll make a video of it if I can ever get them really together again.
Paul, you should get a forum merit badge for turning the name Django into a verb. Very nice!
Haha yeah I always say that. To me it's a very specific away of approaching playing an acoustic guitar.
As much as I want other types of players to play my instruments it drives me nuts how light other people pick. My guitars benefit from a variety of levels of picking pressure but it seems like most electric or archtop players never get passes a 2/10.