Excellently said! I once participated in a masterclass with Robert Spencer. My lute had just travelled 100 Km in Nova Scotian winter conditions and I had just changed to my first set of gut strings. Needless to say tuning was a misery, and I suffered the embarassment of wasting considerable time tuning my 10 course in front of an audience of about 80 guitarists and singers. My singer looked like he might need a change of pants at any minute. Robert, ever the gentleman, made light of my difficulties as follows: "Lutenists need to live twice as long as ordinary people, because they have to spend a lifetime tuning." It is a sad irony that he had such a short life himself.
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