>Oh, I thought that tuning in fifths involved Jack Daniels. It never really sounded right, but after most of a fifth, I didn't care.
Tim > > >---- Original Message ---- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning >Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:43:02 -0700 > >> >>>On Marted�, giu 8, 2004, at 07:10 Europe/Rome, Jon Murphy wrote: >>> >>> > What is "re-entrant tuning". >> >>--I thought re-entrant tuning was when you stop the other guys from >playing >>so you get a second chance to tune. >>--In a solo setting, re-entrant tuning means to stop mid-way through >a >>piece to adjust the tuning so that difficult fingerings are made >easier to >>play. Jimmy Hendrix used it a lot, but because he was a sloppy >player, he >>did not bother to stop playing. >>--Re-entrant tuning is to be distinguished from "recursive tuning": >>recursive tuning consists in successively tuning the same string to >all the >>pitches needed for your instrument. >>--To tune a lute: tighten the chanterelle carefully until it breaks, >then >>unwind a quarter turn. Finally, tune all the other strings on the >chanterelle. >>--Tuning: the act by which a perfectly good instrument is made to >sound >>totally off. >>--Temperament: the state of mind or mood that follows an attempt to >tune >>your instrument. Traditionally, among lutenists, temperaments go >from >>choleric to depressed (or melancholic). >>--Equal temperament: a state of persistent despondency following >many >>failed attempts to tune. Sometimes results in an attempt to tune all >the >>strings to the same pitch to make it easier. >>--Chromatic scale: the results of applying different colors to all >the >>courses on your archlute so as to give a chance to your right hand >to know >>which one is which (see also under "Rainbow coalition") >>--"High-fifth": what two lutenists give to each other after tuning >to each >>other. >>--Thumb under: what 2 lutenists get for failing to tune successfully >to >>each other >>--Re-entrant tuning is also used to describe the particular sound of >a lute >>hitting the ground really hard after yet another failed attempt at >tuning >>it - probably by analogy with a re-entry into the atmosphere. (see >also >>under "sonic boom") >>--D minor tuning: as opposed to major tuning, i.e. when you only >bother to >>tune all courses up from the fourth one, carefully leaving the >bourdons >>untouched. >>--Octave tuning: describes the attempt at replacing a broken bass >string >>with fishing line >>--Sonic boom: the sound made by a theorbo that was tuned just a tad >too >>high, thereby separating the neck from the bowl. >>--Pythagorean ratios: an act of revenge taken by mathematicians on >musicians >>--Tuning with gut is generally more difficult because it involves >letting >>your instinct tell you exactly where 415MHz is as well as chose what >gauges >>to use for each course. >>--Ashcroft tuning: designates a long period of silence in a >classical music >>concert hall. >>--Ashcroft tuning (2): the attempt to tune your lute as if it were a > >>5-string banjo in order to be able to apply for an NEH grant. >(generally >>followed by a sonic boom) >>--Tuned in fourths: when you only bother to tune every fourth string >>--Tuned in fifths: no one is lazy enough in the lute world to do it, >but >>widely in use in the violin family of instruments >> >>If you don't get all the jokes above, you have not been playing the >lute >>long enough... >>Alain >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
