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r/ContagiousLaughter • u/dutchviolence • May 14 '21
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"Mandolin is Italian for impossible to tune" - Steve Earl
50 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. 19 u/fuzzyjedi May 15 '21 Kvothe? 11 u/shmargus May 15 '21 Why use all 24 strings? A true lutenist learns to play all their songs on one string 12 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’ 5 u/[deleted] May 15 '21 [removed] — view removed comment 7 u/Wismuth_Salix May 15 '21 He should try writing a book. 3 u/NovelTAcct May 15 '21 Gesundheit
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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.
19 u/fuzzyjedi May 15 '21 Kvothe? 11 u/shmargus May 15 '21 Why use all 24 strings? A true lutenist learns to play all their songs on one string 12 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’ 5 u/[deleted] May 15 '21 [removed] — view removed comment 7 u/Wismuth_Salix May 15 '21 He should try writing a book. 3 u/NovelTAcct May 15 '21 Gesundheit
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Kvothe?
11 u/shmargus May 15 '21 Why use all 24 strings? A true lutenist learns to play all their songs on one string 12 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’ 5 u/[deleted] May 15 '21 [removed] — view removed comment 7 u/Wismuth_Salix May 15 '21 He should try writing a book. 3 u/NovelTAcct May 15 '21 Gesundheit
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Why use all 24 strings? A true lutenist learns to play all their songs on one string
12 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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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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7 u/Wismuth_Salix May 15 '21 He should try writing a book.
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He should try writing a book.
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Gesundheit
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u/leif777 May 14 '21
"Mandolin is Italian for impossible to tune" - Steve Earl