> I the use same mixture of Nylgut and Pyramid > strings on my ten course and find that it stays in > tune remarkably well, although I'm not that crazy > about the sound of the pyramid basses on this > instrument. > > Roman - have you found this tuning stability to be > typical with carbon? I'm thinking of stringing my > theorbo at least partially with it. > Chris Yes. I have the courses 1-4 entirely in carbon, as well as most octaves. The fundamentals are Pyramids on 5-7, and the 8-13 are old copper Savarez. I like "cold" sound of carbon, and it combines well with voice. RT
> > > --- Donatella Galletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
