On Nov 30, 2011, at 12:35 AM, William Samson wrote: > I sometimes wonder why I haven't come across much in the way of > contemporary agonisings about pitch standards and compatibility of > lutes with their wide range of scale lengths for a given nominal > pitch. Presumably this would have been a problem for the old guys > too? Or have I missed something?
For most players, pitch was a given. If you lived in London in 1720 and the local pitch was A=410, you tuned your lute to A=410 or you couldn't play with other instrumentalists else, which would make you useless as a musician. We sometimes forget that solo music was a small part of what lute players did. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
