In a message dated 8/5/2006 9:33:08 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a gig coming, on vihuela, and the weather here is so humid, decided to try nylgut on that instrument, so I put those strings on last night. It sounds terrible in nylgut, so I will re-apply the gut, and suffer tuning problems. I cannot accept bad sound, just because it is in tune. Last night I performed in a little concert using my nylgut strung 10 course lute under conditions which were not excessively humid and was surprised to find that I had great difficulty keeping this lute in tune, compared to the gut strung lutes which I normally play on. Not only this, but I find I can tune gut strung lutes with greater ease and more quickly than lutes strung with nylgut. Yes, gut is the way to go! Kenneth -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
