The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52937   Message #833888
Posted By: Jeri
24-Nov-02 - 11:51 AM
Thread Name: Last Shanty Swap at China Sea-11/23 (Maine)
Subject: RE: Last Shanty Swap at China Sea-11/23 (Maine)
Oh, and Kendall - re me bitching about tuning: sometimes it's nice to just listen, especially when it's you doing Patrick Spencer. I just bitch out of habit. (And in this case, it was retrospectively ME I was complaining about.)

I'm convinced there was some sort of guitar tuning gremlin running around last night messing with people's tuners. When I got there, I tuned my guitar which does NOT normally go out of tune over the course of a few hours and my fiddle, which will go slightly out of tune with temperature and humidity changes. When I tried to play guitar with Kendall, I accused him of being flat, but it was me being sharp. Later, I started playing fiddle with him and he'd gone sharp. (Fiddle was in tune per my electronic arbitrator) Anyway, it was very weird - big changes in pitch, but only on guitars, and ALL the strings went about the same amount out.

Darned gremlin...