Anthony wrote:
there seems to be no easy way out.
I hope you understand that I am crying out for help over this issue.
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If you don't hear it, there's no use doing it. Then stay with ET. But if you
want to learn to hear it, you have to start to listen. Begin with listening
to a pure major third, it's on your lute: harmonics around the fourth fret.
Compare to ET third. It's on your ET-fretted lute. Appreciate the
difference. You like the pure third better? Set the fret so that you have a
pure third. Once you've done that, there's no stopping. Forget the tuner, go
for pure thirds, they're magic. It's like someone teaching you how to
appreciate good wine, or proper food. There's no going back. You will have
to learn with the compromises, but pure thirds wil make up for those.
David
Hapy with the Turbo Tuner nonetheless: big help in difficult times.
Yesterday J.S. and J. Chr. Bach and Scarlatti in ET, tomorrow Bach, de Fasch
and Graupner in Silbermann. :-)
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