> Thomas has stated we are pitch challenged of lying about this, that it is > impossible for an instrument to stay in tune after travel. I believe > Roman > and Kenneth, as we have all had similarly good tuning experiences.
In my years of using carbon I had the same experience: incredible pitch stability and durability. Which does cause problems when playing together with gut-strung instruments, by the way: they go up or down together, while I stay stable, making me out of tune, not them. ;-) Now, using gut, I've had some good experiences, some not so good ones, but on the whole I found gut to be a lot more stable than I always thought it would be. I played my all-gut theorbo last Sunday in a church where the organ was 429Hz (local standard pitch for centuries so they told me) and something close to equal temperament, while I came from 440Hz 1/4 comma mean-tone. I tuned down, adjusted frets and did not have to tune any more during rehearsal or concert. It was very cold, but when I arrived it rained and when I left the sun was shining, so not very stable humidity. David PS; My rice-cake/omelette was fine, but did not stick together very well. Not enough egg I suppose. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
