Doc Rossi wrote: > I don't understand what's slipping - is the loop slipping on itself, > or off of the hook you've made? If you're really using stell, as > opposed to iron, why not use ball ends, if that's what works? Or you > could tie balls onto the end of the iron strings easily enough. > > Another question - why not tune it to G, rather than A, to get a > lighter tension? Thanks. I think the string is slipping at the machine head and perhaps the loop is slightly slowly unravelling too. After a couple of hours now the string has settled and I can get it to a higher pitch but it's still unsteady. The main thing is, the instrument doesn't sound any more like a cittern than it did with nylon strings - so I'll give up on the NRI strings.
The idea was to tune it to G and capo to A. Compared to the C-tuning, G-tuning, although it's the same thing lower, seems a lot gloomier (whatever the actual pitch was in those days). I think the A-tuning is sort of midway :- not as flippant as the C-tuning and not as morbid as the G-tuning. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
