On Tuesday 28 March 2006 10:09 am, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: > At 10:58 AM 3/28/2006, Arto Wikla wrote: > >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... ;-) > > Obviously...but you still can't truly fret any instrument to any > temperament scheme other than roughly equal temperament without > tastini or some other device for sectioning frets.
I've got 2 first frets and use 1/4 Comma Meantone Temperament. I didn't try to use 2 eighth frets, but it might work. Never went the tastini route. "The Other" Stephen Stubbs Champaign, IL USA To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
