>>> spinning tall tales, most likely both! >>> Michael Thames >> 2. I am "pitch challenged" so I use devices. My Korg->AT1 didn't say > anything >> either. > Are you sure your using that thing correctly? Their kind of tricky, > picking up all those overtones and all. > I use those devices to tune to A 415, and then my ear, I cannot tolerate > any out of tuneness, maybe you can. You must have major problems with temperaments..........
>> 3. I guess I have to thank Larry Brown for a really >stable >instrument. > Maybe >> you should apprentice to him. > I have something to learn from everyone, unlike you. But with all do > respect to Larry Brown, it's got nothing to do with the lute, just the > strings, temp, and humidity. Maybe you pegs are a bit square. You know, peg-holes are round......... RT ______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv > >>>> 1. Carbon strings held tuning throughout the 10-hour >overnight ride to >>>> Cleveland. 11th course octave was a little flat in the >morning. I > didn't >>>> touch a peg for the rest of the weekend >>> >>> So let me get this straight, your saying over a three day period from > NY. >>> In different rooms, hotel, houses, concert hall etc. you didn't touch a > peg >>> other than your 11th course. You are either "pitch challenged", or > prone to >>> spinning tall tales, most likely both! >>> Michael Thames >> 1. Our main vocalist Julian Kytasty has perfect pitch, so he would have >> mentioned it if I were out of tune. >> 2. I am "pitch challenged" so I use devices. My Korg-AT1 didn't say > anything >> either. >> 3. I guess I have to thank Larry Brown for a really stable intrument. > Maybe >> you should apprentice to him. >> 4. One other possibility is that Ken Be' tuned my axe when I wasn't > looking, >> on Saturday, but it is not very likely. >> RT >> >> >> -- >> http://polyhymnion.org/torban >> >> >>> >>>> P.S. >>>> 2 interesting details: >>>> 1. Carbon strings held tuning throughout the 10-hour overnight ride to >>>> Cleveland. 11th course octave was a little flat in the morning. I > didn't >>>> touch a peg for the rest of the weekend. >>>> 2. Our program is on a controversial side, and it might (and should) > have >>>> caused considerable consternation on the part of clergy of 4 > denominations >>>> present (including an archbishop). But Mar'jana's act consisted largely >>> from >>>> the songs she collected at the Carpathian fertility rites, which are >>>> basically Pagan, and outright scabrous. Imagine what was going on in >>>> celibate heads. >>>> RT >>>> ______________ >>>> Roman M. Turovsky >>>> http://polyhymnion.org/swv >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
