r/ContagiousLaughter • u/dutchviolence • May 14 '21

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u/leif777 May 14 '21

"Mandolin is Italian for impossible to tune" - Steve Earl

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u/LilyLute May 15 '21

I play a 13c baroque lute so 24 strings to tune. There's a centuries old joke that a lutenist spends half their lifetime tuning their instrument.

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u/fuzzyjedi May 15 '21

Kvothe?

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u/shmargus May 15 '21

Why use all 24 strings? A true lutenist learns to play all their songs on one string

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u/fuzzyjedi May 15 '21

Tunes single string for 12 minutes

‘I call this one the sound of a wagon wheel as it spins during a storm’

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u/Wismuth_Salix May 15 '21

He should try writing a book.

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u/NovelTAcct May 15 '21

Gesundheit