On Jan 6, 2012, at 1:57 AM, Martyn Hodgson wrote: > Equal temperament was used on lutes from the 16th century onwards
Except by Gerle (1532) And the Dowlands (1610) And Ganassi (1543) And Mersenne (1636) And anyone who read their books and followed their instructions And anyone who played with wire-strung instruments with unequally-tempered fixed frets. Or unequally tempered keyboard instruments or wind or string players who played in unequal temperament. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html