Body frets ARE historical feature on baroque lutes. RT >>> Seems to be accurate enough. >> No temperament is accurate with lutes, once left hand starts fretting, >> and >> even more so higher up the neck, especially with such high action as, >> say, > But that's the whole point of movable frets. You can adjust them to the > temperament, but also to the (im)perfections of the strings. Have a look > at > the frets on my theorbo, _quite_ oblique to accommodate thick gut bass > strings. Frets at 'calculated positions' (ET or MT) are bound to give > false > results without adjustments. Guitar with fixed frest have build-in > adjustment for this. Perhaps another reason why body frets were not a > historical feature on lutes: they cannot be adjusted to action, > temperament, > strings or individual (lack of proper) technique. > > David
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