> In einer eMail vom 05/07/2005 15:42:09 Westeurop�ische Sommerzeit > schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > The cittern parts are in Viaera's book and call for > diatonic fretting.� > > > We live and learn! > > This is the first time I've heard of diatonic fretting on a cittern, > or any lute-class instrument, for that matter, though of course the > concept is familiar from early fretted zithers. > > How is the diatonic scale distributed on the fingerboard? How are the > strings tuned? Is the whole compass diatonic, or each string diatonic > on a different keynote? > > Any good documentation of the diatonic cittern in the Internet? > > Fascinated, > John Dallas
Hi John, Andrew Hartig has a nice site about Renaissance citterns: http://www.theaterofmusic.com/cittern/ There might be something there - look for pictures/drawings. He certainly lists articles there, and there is one specifically of fret patterns, by Peter Forrester, I think. Otherwise, there's Grove, but there are a few errors... If I recall correctly, there are fully diatonic and mixed fretted instruments, meaning that some instruments have chromatic or nearly chromatic fretting under the high courses only. Typical "missing" frets would be 4, 6, 8, 11, 13, 16. It does make some chords easier to play on a longer-scale instrument. I'm sure other folks with more knowledge on the renaissance instrument can give a more complete answer. Doc To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
