Robert,
Welcome to the list.
My hg likes humidity too, so to give it some humidity even in dry weather, I keep a wet dampit in the key box. A dampit is an expensive sponge you can get in instrument stores. I got one meant for guitar, but they have different sizes. You can fit one in the case if it doesn't fit in the keybox.
If the tangents still spin, you can also take them out, fold a very small strip of paper under the stem, and put them back in. That will fill in the excess space.
Melissa
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Hello all. My name is Robert Resnik, and I live in Burlington, Vermont,
USA. For the past year I have been the proud owner of a lute-back gurdy
built by Jean-Noel Grandchamps in the early 1980s, and am proud to report
that I can usually keep it in good working order (particularly now that
there is enough humidity so that many of the tangents don't spin like a
top when I try to play!) I love the playing of Nigel Eaton, and was also
inspired to play the gurdy by Daniel Thonon and Nicolas Boulerice.
Speaking of the Grandchamps gurdy, this instrument was apparently imported
by a man in California named Arrigo D'Albert, who, it appears, removed the
original Grandchamps label from the lid and put his own name on a label
inside the instrument. If anyone has a vielle built by Jean-Noel
Grandchamps that has an original label, I would very much appreciate it if
I caould get a digital photograph of the label so I can duplicate it and
reinstall it on my lid!
Thanks and best wishes,
Robert Resnik
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