On 8/17/07, LGS-Europe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our top string is _much_ thinner than a viol's. Theirs don't break so often. >
unless, of course, you forget to tune the top string(s) down a minor third or so before putting it away on a moist day, and the weather turns dry. Here in New England, failure to observe the "slacken your strings before storage" rule results in a 100% top string replacement, every time. (In winter, playing in a well-humidified room and then taking the viol through outside air to the car can do it, if the case isn't so airtight that mold grows on your bow!) > David - next week playing Dowland's Seven Teares with five viols, it'll be a > tuning contest! Perhaps you can convince the viol players (and yourself, if necessary) to move their frets according to rule-of-18 instead of whatever they're using now? It works with Dowland, and really reduces the work the viol players have to do with keeping in tune on-the-fly! ray To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
