Okay. Good example. Got it. I thought the point that was being made was that it was impossible to have them the same in both instruments. If the keyboard player set his meantone to all flats, for example, and the lute did likewise, I don't see where there would be any differences. I see where Eugene was going with that now. The key phrase was "unmodified frets" which I glossed over. Like David said, in practice there are ways to work around it.
Ed, sticking with the "easy" keys On Mar 31, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Stefan Ecke wrote: > If the keyboard player sets his instruments to meantone > with the accidentials f sharp, c sharp, g sharp, e flat and b flat > and you set the first fret of your lute to have a g sharp on the > first course the notes on courses 2-6 will be d sharp, a sharp, > f sharp, c sharp, g sharp. > Thus, courses 2 and 3 don't match the keyboard on the first fret. > If you move the fret up so that courses 2 and 3 are in tune with > the keyboard, all other frets are no longer in tune on the first fret. > Similiar problem are there for all the frets that have accidentials. > > Stefan 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
