On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Ron Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David vO wrote... > "I'm into bits of fret gut, held in place with tape, these days. The .. > I assume this is what I know as 'masking-tape'. Can you elaborate how you > use it on a lute?
See the picture on on this page: http://home.planet.nl/~ooije006/david/writings/meantone_f.html (scroll down) > It can be difficult to remove after a few months, but I don't > envisage anyone making a temporary tuning last that long! On the contrary, some of my lutes are permanently in some form of MT, so the bits of fret-with-masking-tape only get removed for jobs requiring ET. So far no sticky fingerboards. A friend used the 'invisible' scotch tape. Looked better, perhaps, but it was a serious pain to remove. David > > Ron (UK) > > -- > ******************************* > David van Ooijen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.davidvanooijen.nl > ******************************* > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl *******************************
