Keeping my Martin in tune

Subject: RE: Keeping my Martin in tune
From: GUEST,Lanfranc the Cookieless
Date: 24 Mar 06 - 06:44 AM

Glad it worked out, Chris - I told you he was good.

PM me sometime if you fancy a get-together and a jam.

Alan

Subject: RE: Keeping my Martin in tune
From: GUEST,Tom Bliss
Date: 24 Mar 06 - 07:19 AM

A jam sounds fun - way out there in the north sea. Perhaps we could play the tune I was commissioned to write for a Sedco Forex video: 'Rigs of Oil'

Subject: RE: Keeping my Martin in tune
From: GUEST,Seaking at work
Date: 25 Mar 06 - 10:54 AM

Lanfranc, where do you live ? I'm also cookieless at the moment so can't pm.

Tom, I've always been surprised at the apparent shortage of songs written around the North Sea oil and gas industry -probably the notable exception being Men O' worth. I mentioned this last year and discovered El Greko's 'Working on the stilts' which he kindly played for me at Miskin.(Apologies if that title isn't totally accurate George)) I'd like to hear your 'Rigs of Oil' sometime too. It's occured to me that there may be more material out there but it's never all been pulled together. I'm sure someone will tell me differently if I'm wrong.

Chris

Subject: RE: Keeping my Martin in tune
From: GUEST,Commander Crabbe
Date: 25 Mar 06 - 11:50 AM

Seaking

There's also Dougie Maclean's "Northern Cowboy" and another song called "Kishorn Commandos" about those who built the rigs.

CC

Subject: RE: Keeping my Martin in tune
From: Justa Picker
Date: 25 Mar 06 - 12:43 PM

Another thing that can affect tuning stability (in addition to the remedy of having a compensated saddle and proper setup done by a luthier) is the environment where the guitar is stored.

Too much humidity and the top rises, throwing things out of whack. Too little humdity and the top sinks - again throwing the tuning out(and can also cause cracks/seam separations, etc.)

Humidity issues can also cause the frets or the fret ends to rise or the fingerboard to shrink - again ALL affecting tuning stability and intonation.

If you care about humidity issues the target R.H. you want year round (which, depending on location - can require a humdifier in the winter months and a dehumidifier in the summer months) is between 45 & 55%. (I keep my pups in a climate controlled environment year round with an average R.H. of 50% and 3 hygrometers at different points in the room and average the readings from all three.)

I have zero tuning issues with my 6 Martins some of which include OO, OOO, OM and dreadnaught sizes.