Dear David, In my last note, I stated "Thomas", but I meant to say "Michael". My apologies.
Yes David, I am mostly using gut now, with exception on my 8 course lute. I have 1 instrument in synthetics, the rest in gut. Do you play 13 course baroque lute? If so, do you use gut for that instrument? And so, what is your experience with stability? ed At 10:35 AM 4/13/2005 +0200, LGS-Europe wrote: > > 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 Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (218) 728-1202
