On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Roman Turovsky wrote:

> (Monteverdi was attacked by Artusi for tuning in ET). 

Quote please! And the proof that Artusi really was speaking of ET.
(Remember you are now talking of my composer hero! :-)

(BTW, when I played theorbo in the Poppea, I set also another "tastino"
 to my theorbo to make it possible to play a beautiful thirds in B-major
 and c-minor chords - the fret was set so that d sharp is good, the 
 tastino was on the _other_ side of the fret, higher, for e flat. Worked 
 ery well and I did not need to suffer the ugly and horrible thirds of 
 the ET. :-)

Arto



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