Dear Franz, Both: the lighting produces incredible amounts of heat, as does the crowd. The crowd also produces lots of humidity. Both of these factors are normal last-minute changes to concert environments, but my lute was more than usually unstable yesterday. In fact, I wasn't supposed to be using it at all: it had just had surgery (re-drilled the bridge and changed the spacing, meaning the strings were all in different places) and all the strings were changed last week. In particular, the loaded strings lose 0.5 Kg of tension in the first month, so not only do they suffer the normal instability of gut, but in this case they were particularly unstable since they were not even finished stabilizing on the instrument yet.
The lute I was expecting to use exploded in the lute maker's workshop before I could pick it up....but that *is* another story.... Best, B 2010/1/18 Franz Mechsner <franz.mechs...@northumbria.ac.uk>: > Stupid question: How does lightning dis-balance the tuning? Is it heat? > Or maybe the human warmth of the crowd instead? > F > __________________________________________________________________ > > Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu im Auftrag von David van Ooijen > Gesendet: Mo 18.01.2010 09:40 > An: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu > Betreff: [LUTE] Re: What makes a lute stay in tune? > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Benjamin Narvey <luthi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > In answer to the question "what makes a lute stay in tune?" I > respond: > > > > certainly *not* high-intensity lighting! > Been there, done that. |-( > David > -- > ******************************* > David van Ooijen > davidvanooi...@gmail.com > www.davidvanooijen.nl > ******************************* > To get on or off this list see list information at > [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- Dr Benjamin A. Narvey Institute of Musical Research School of Advanced Study University of London t +33 (0) 1 44 27 03 44 p/m +33 (0) 6 71 79 98 98 Site web/Website: www.luthiste.com
