How do you cope with the inescapable fact that the chromatic and diatonic intervals are different on the different tuned courses? Or are you simply focussing in on one course (perhaps the 1st or 2nd)? What do you do when you're obliged to play in different keys?
MH --- On Wed, 21/5/08, David van Ooijen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: David van Ooijen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Frets > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, 21 May, 2008, 11:09 PM > Anthony wrote: > > >> > there seems to be no easy way out. > I hope you understand that I am crying out for help over > this issue. > << > > 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. :-) > > > **************************** > David van Ooijen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.davidvanooijen.nl > **************************** > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
