Hi All My lute originally (made 2010) had carbon strings and I changed to nylgut. The tuning, tuning, tuning every 5 mintues drove me nuts and I did want more of a 'gut' sound. Living in Melbourne (Aus) in a house with little heating or air condiditoning the temperateure jumps like a grasshopper and the humidity in summer can be high. Although, no, its not Singapore.
I've found the nylgut much more steady. I"m really not sure of the benefit of carbon strings... love to all. Claudia On 06/10/2012, at 4:33 AM, Bruno Correia wrote: > Funny, I was thinking about the same thing today. My instruments are > never in tune when taken out of the case for the first time everyday > day. I'm on sinthetics (Aquila), but I believe on gut the result would > be much worse, the weather in Rio is very close to Singapore... > > > > > > 2012/10/5 Benjamin Narvey <[1][email protected]> > > Dear Luters, > I know that much has been made about tuning issues pertaining to gut > strings, but it strikes me now how little has been said about the > same difficulty with synthetics/modern strings. > For the first time in ages I am playing on a modern-strung theorbo > belonging to a student of mine for rehearsals of a "Fairy Queen" > while I impatiently await the arrival of my new "double luth" in > some weeks (more on this giraffe anon). I am simply aghast at how > badly carbon strings go out of tune, even though they are "not > supposed to". (Nylon/nylgut fares better.) Indeed, the (ugh) > overwound Savarez "guitar" bass strings are the worst offenders of > all, going madly out of tune sometimes: not surprising they are so > sensitive given how metal is such a superb conducting material. The > tuning got so sticky I actually took the instrument to a lutemaker > since I thought it had to be peg slippage, but no. And of course, > with all these different modern materials, the different string > types are going out if tune differently. Superb. > I just can't believe I forgot about how difficult tuning synthetics > can be. But more importantly, it leads me to question what the point > of playing on synthetics is: after all, the reason why players use > them is since they are supposed to bally well stay in tune... and I > am really not so sure given my current experience that they do this > better than gut. > Thoughts? > Benjamin > Sent from my iPhone > To get on or off this list see list information at > [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > Bruno Correia > > > > Pesquisador autonomo da pratica e interpretac,ao > > historicamente informada no alaude e teorba. > > Doutor em Praticas Interpretativas pela > > Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. > > -- > > References > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
