Playing with a capo does in my ears change the colour to a more lute like one (less fundamentals in the sound), however I would use the second fret, so that the markers are still in place ;-)
Regards, Stephan Am 13 Nov 2007 um 19:38 hat Daniel Winheld geschrieben: > And why wouldn't it work without the capo? Ed Martin has addressed > the lute size (and the ever elusive but false "G"eeness obsession of > 20 -21st century lutenists) succinctly and completely. I would only > add that one reason for the use of tabulature is precisely BECAUSE > the "G" pitch was but one of many legitimate pitches for lutes and > vihuelas, and learning all the transpositions necessary from one > arbitrarily selected default pitch was unworkable for most players. > As a professional player years ago, I did learn to read double-staff > notated music for lutes in G. As a previously trained classical > guitarist it wasn't hard to read staff notated A lute- just pretend > to play a guitar with a 7th, high "a" string. Having bass viol > experience made reading "D" bass lute from staff workable. But the > pain in the butt factor is obvious- that's why a system that > essentially uses a blueprint of what goes on on the fingerboard is so > all inclusive and wonderful, at least for solo music reading pleasure > and learning. The important thing, of course, is that you are > playing. Just don't restrict your options for chimerical reasons. > > >I don't know.. I put a capo on the 3rd fret of my guitar and got the > >relative tuning of a Ren. Lute.. it seems to work with the tabs Im > >reading. > >-- > > Joshua E. Horn > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
