Isn't tuning a pain? John Dowland said he thought he'd spent a third of his life tuning his lute, and my recollection of the years I spent as a 12-string player were much the same.T found an old Stella in a junk shop in Skibbereen last year, £40. I saw it in the window and was disappointed to see someone had taken off half the machine heads to convert it to a 6-string. I mentioned this to the shopkeeper and she said there might have been some other junk with it. She drove off home to look, and came back with an envelope: which contained not only the 6 machine heads, but all the screws Now i really can pretend to be Leadbelly1