My Hasenfuss- Weigert baroque is also "factory tuned", as a gambist joking told me. I hardly ever need to tune , especially if I don't change keys or if the weather is not too wet. I use a mixture of Aquila and Pyramid strings.
(Ok, "hardly ever" means every two, three days, but I've just had a wonderful wine with a dessert which is a specialty from Piedmont and I feel quite optimistic...) Donatella http://web.tiscali.it/awebd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Thames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LUTE-LIST" <[email protected]>; "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 7:52 PM Subject: Re: lute outreach > >1. Carbon strings held tuning throughout the 10-hour >overnight ride to > >Cleveland. 11th course octave was a little flat in the >morning. I didn't > >touch a peg for the rest of the weekend > > So let me get this straight, your saying over a three day period from NY. > In different rooms, hotel, houses, concert hall etc. you didn't touch a peg > other than your 11th course. You are either "pitch challenged", or prone to > spinning tall tales, most likely both! > Michael Thames > www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "LUTE-LIST" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:28 AM > Subject: Re: lute outreach > > > > P.S. > > 2 interesting details: > > 1. Carbon strings held tuning throughout the 10-hour overnight ride to > > Cleveland. 11th course octave was a little flat in the morning. I didn't > > touch a peg for the rest of the weekend. > > 2. Our program is on a controversial side, and it might (and should) have > > caused considerable consternation on the part of clergy of 4 denominations > > present (including an archbishop). But Mar'jana's act consisted largely > from > > the songs she collected at the Carpathian fertility rites, which are > > basically Pagan, and outright scabrous. Imagine what was going on in > > celibate heads. > > RT > > ______________ > > Roman M. Turovsky > > http://polyhymnion.org/swv > > > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > >
