>> spinning tall tales, most likely both!
>> Michael Thames
>2. I am "pitch challenged" so I use devices. My Korg->AT1 didn't say
anything
>either.
Are you sure your using that thing correctly? Their kind of tricky,
picking up all those overtones and all.
I use those devices to tune to A 415, and then my ear, I cannot tolerate
any out of tuneness, maybe you can.
>3. I guess I have to thank Larry Brown for a really >stable >instrument.
Maybe
>you should apprentice to him.
I have something to learn from everyone, unlike you. But with all do
respect to Larry Brown, it's got nothing to do with the lute, just the
strings, temp, and humidity.
Michael Thames
www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Michael Thames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "LUTE-LIST"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:30 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
> 1. Our main vocalist Julian Kytasty has perfect pitch, so he would have
> mentioned it if I were out of tune.
> 2. I am "pitch challenged" so I use devices. My Korg-AT1 didn't say
anything
> either.
> 3. I guess I have to thank Larry Brown for a really stable intrument.
Maybe
> you should apprentice to him.
> 4. One other possibility is that Ken Be' tuned my axe when I wasn't
looking,
> on Saturday, but it is not very likely.
> RT
>
>
> --
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>
>
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
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