On May 22, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Anthony Hind wrote: > Indeed, at one time my student lute > was set up by Mathias Durvie with slight grooving to allow the player > to slide the frets from eq to one form of meantone (no tastini or > double frets however). I could easily hear the difference. This > seemed to be his standard practice, as I certainly did not ask for > it. Strangely, I have never noticed this on any other lutes.
I once made the mistake of getting a lute repaired by a guitar maker. He did me the "favor" of putting in little notches on the edges of the fretboard so the frets wouldn't move out of EQ. 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
