Daer Jason, You certainly have a "false" string there. Try changing them for new ones, one at the time and see what happends. This is a very usual problem with gut strings. Not all of them a really "true". Try Nylgut, they are quite precise in tuning and sound really similar to gut. I hope this helps you, Alfonso
On 6-apr-2006, at 5:31, Jason Ferry wrote: > Hi, I have recently purchased a baroque guitar. It is > strung in gut with wound basses. I have decided to try > bourdons on both 4th and 5th courses. However, I am > having problems keeping the two strings on the 4th > course in tune. More specifically, while the strings > are in tune when played openly, as I move up the > fretboard they progressively go out of tune. At the > eighth fret the bourdon is substantially flatter than > the octave gut string, and of course if I tune them at > one of the high courses then they are out of tune when > played as open strings. Has anyone had this > experience, and any suggestions on what is causing it > - perhaps defective strings? > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
