Suppose you took a lute and turned half the pegs up 5-15 cents, and half the pegs down 5-15 cents, so that its tuning was com- pletely clobbered.
Now suppose you handed the lute to a person who was very good at tuning lutes, and knew all the tricks. Could he tune the lute so that it would still be in tune 24-48 hours later? Or is there something fundamentally unstable about such a freshly-tuned lute which defies any level of tuning know-how? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
