On Dec 2, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: > The idea of instant transposition on an instrument PRECLUDES meantone > temperaments, for starters. > It would only possible in EqualT. in a hypothetical situation that a given > transposition causes no hideously hard fingerings. > Say, your singer decides to transpose down a semitone from C-major.
Then you tell your singer to go find a piano player. The more likely situation is moving from C to D or Bb, or F to G. > All your frets are in the wrong places. This is actually not a big deal. Frets are movable. When I had one lute and had to move between 440 and 415, I used a capo and could reset the frets in a minute. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
