On Mar 30, 2006, at 2:40 AM, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: > setting single, unmodified frets in any unequal temperament > intervals (some > oft-cited meantone scheme, e.g.)--as some lutenists justifiably do > (and I > do enjoy hearing it when I perceive it as well played)--is NOT > equivalent > to setting the whole of the chromatic capability of a guitar or > lute in > that temperament as it is on a keyboard, but in reality is setting a > parallel series of unequal temperaments under the intervals of the > fretted > strings.
I don't know about all unequal temperaments, but let's take meantone as an example. If we set our frets to a meantone temperament (putting aside tastini for the moment - as a single keyboard would have to have just one note per key), it happens to work out that all the notes at every fret are in that temperament. What is the difference with a keyboard? If you tune a keyboard to meantone, are not all the notes within the temperament? By "parallel series of unequal temperaments", do you mean each string has the same fret relationship and is therefor parallel? It is quite amazing that it works out that the notes at those frets are in the temperament just as they would be on a keyboard or a tuner, but as far as I know, that is the case. I know I must be missing something so if you could explain it a bit further I would be grateful. cheers, Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
