And how many less songs will I be able to hear in the time left to me if a third of each performance is woffle?
I have heard you perform three times at the MRFC and you do not indulge in time wasting or undue verbosity.
What amount of pre music discussion would have you grinding your teeth and muttering get on with it under your breath?
I would have thought that the temperature of the string at the time of tuning was all ready settled by the allowance of the ambient temperature of the room into the instrument for a proper amount of time before its intended use.
The use of a tuning aid tends to focus the person using it on the task in hand with its cute little lights and buzzers.
Will welcome all advice offered seeing as need all help can get especially from a maestro such as yourself.
Open mikes are the place to go to hear the Folk music of today IMHO