In einer eMail vom 24.10.2006 14:58:34 Westeurop=E4ische Sommerzeit schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Rules are hard to live by ;-) > Roger, Rules can make things a lot easier. I want to play music, not make up my own rules to replace existing ones. For the purpose of playing music, I have a large (my wife says, too large) selection of perfectly regular instruments, all tuned the way the tutors say. And the fretted ones are each tuned differently. The fifths mandolins, the fourths/third guitars and ukulele, the open-chord Waldzither, the open-chord-over-a-fifth banjos. Each tuning facilitates a particular style, and the beautiful thing about it is, that I never lose my orientation. The differently-tuned instruments have a different physical look and feel, so when I grasp the neck of a particular instrument, the appropriate fingerings get loaded into my brain automatically. And because I tune by the rules, my tunings match the acoustical properties of the body and the available strings. A naive approach, granted - but I get a lot of enjoyment out of it! Cheers, John D. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
