Just by the way, don't want to revive the controversy - but in one of his
recent messages Lex said...
The fact that the music transcends the scope of re-entrant tuning doesn't
say that that tuning is inferior. We just should accept that it is not
capable of rendering everything in music. Not Bach's Chaconne, for
example...
Well - it is.... Dominic Robillard has arranged it for what he calls the
"Roman tuning" and can be heard playing it on You Tube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue
or just put in Bach Chaconne baroque guitar.
It works very well - sounds much better than it does on the classical guitar
(or even the lute for that matter). The violin is very limited in what it
can do and the point about the piece is that it takes the instrument to the
limits of what it can do. The baroque guitar with a re-entrant tuning is
much closer to the violin in the way that it is tuned than the classical
guitar and has a more abrasive timbre which is similar to the
violin.......Less is more.
Yours truly
Monica
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