On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Christopher Wilke <chriswi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- 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.
Fair enough, but not more out of tune than an old one. ;-) When Toyohiko was still on synthetics, he had a string strecher in his house. Not much use when travelling. I believe nylgut de-strechtes (is that English?) itself when no longer under tension. Not much use when travelling. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html