On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: > At 05:12 AM 3/28/2006, LGS-Europe wrote: > >Of course, but we have to play together with keyboards, and think of > >something not to be _too_ out of tune with them. |-( > >So it's worth trying such temperaments on our continuo lutes. > > A fretted instrument can never quite be in tune with a keyboard without > using a fair number of tastini or some other device for segmenting frets, > especially in remote keys. The exception, of course, is equal tempered > keyboards playing along with frets set to approximate equal > temperament. Since equal temperament obviously was not universal until > more recently, I suspect the period ear might have been a little more > tolerant of a little tonal ambiguity between tone colors.
And perhaps the same ear of the period was less tolerant to every tonality sounding the same and no tonality sounding pure, all the major thirds sounding ugly... ;-) All the best, Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
