--- On Sun, 7/18/10, David van Ooijen <davidvanooi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Gut doesn't need stretching, it's up to tension within
> minutes.
..and then out of tune the rest of the time. With all due respect, I know you
and some other pros use gut, but the majority of concertizing professional
players use synthetics (mostly nylgut it seems) precisely because tuning is
more dependable once its stretched. As Sterling asked, I too have often
wondered what they do in situations when they break a string right before the
show. I keep my old ones, but that is of very little help with nylgut.
Chris
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