Yes, Nigel, I do it all the time. In fact, I had a concert in humid August this year, in which I performed on a Scottich mandour, an 11 course, and a 13 course bass rider lute. All are in gut (that is all I have had for baroque lutes for the past 12 years), and I did not have to adjust one single peg to re-tune.
The only time I have tuning trouble is when the climate is changed during performance (i.e. someone turns off air conditioner, etc) The gut these days is so much more stable than the gut of some years ago. I actually find it easier to deal with, as compared to wound strings. ed At 10:40 AM 12/2/2007 +0100, Nigel Solomon wrote: >(has anybody ever tried keeping 24 gut strings in tune successfully >for the time needed to play a single Weiss courante?). Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (218) 728-1202 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
