Well, my original mail on this subject referred - among other things -
about the possibility of correcting the tuning on higher frets easier than
on the first fret: the first fret bb and f# are hard to tune by left hand
pressure - that problem becomes much easier on higher frets. Perhaps this
correcting is the "charlatan" of us lutenists? :)
Are there really any serious lutenists, who just "push the buttons", just
set the finger on the string without "colouring" the pitch by the finger
pressure up or down?
Best,
Arto
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 22:45:37 +0100, "Jean-Marie Poirier"
<jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> David, I made amends for that mistake of mine ! ;-(
>
> There is another quotation from Mersenne I like very much :
>
> "According to the common saying of musicians, the lute is the charlatan
of
> music, because it passes off as good that whichis bad on good
> instruments..." (Translated by Mark Lindley , Lutes, Viols and
> Temperaments, Cambridge University Press, 1984)
>
> I like the isea of playing a "charlatan of music" :-). Don't you ?
>
> Best,
>
> Jean-Marie
>
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> == En réponse au message du 06-01-2012, 22:39:12 ==
>
>>2012/1/6 Jean-Marie Poirier <jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr>:
>>
>>> I think his {Denis'] "ivory frets", which could be adjusted according
>>> to the required temperament, are only another experimental endeavour
>>> comparable with Galilei's suggested use of "tastini"
>>
>>
>>On the contrary, Galilei does not suggest the use of tastini, instead
>>he mentions them as "... tastini, which lately some people seek to
>>introduce in order to remove some of their sharpness from the thirds
>>and major tenths (as they try to persuade those who are more foolish
>>than they)."(Fronimo 1584, translation Carol MacClintock 1985).
>>
>>So Galilei was not in favour of tastini at all, but there were lute
>>players in his time who were. Nothing new, in other words. ;-)
>>
>>David
>>
>>
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