A casual, oft-made observation: Gut seems to me to react more to humidity while synthetics and wound strings react more to temperature. Wire-wound organic multiilament strings (like silver-wound silk) are a double wammy.
Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On > Behalf Of Benjamin Narvey > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 3:54 AM > To: Franz Mechsner > Cc: David van Ooijen; lute-cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: [LUTE] Re: What makes a lute stay in tune? > > 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
