Edward Martin wrote:
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
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Duluth, Minnesota 55812
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Oh well, that told me! I guess you have to get to the venue hours before
though to enable the instruments to adjust to the humidity. I am not
flying a flag for synthetic strings, just that on the whole they are
a little more reliable (particularly Pyramid wound which, despite
sounding a bit tinny at first, just don't budge whatever the weather,
etc. On my theorbo I have one wound Pyramid, the 6th (A) and I use it as
a reference for keeping all the other strings in tune throughout the
concert)
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