That does sound sensible - and ingenious - but from recollection, the measurements given by the LSA chart for Dowland's lute gave a narrow distance between the second and third frets, which didn't sound much like ET to me - and generally didn't seem to produce a pattern of proportionally reduced distances between the frets that I imagine you would get from such a system. Any ideas where I went wrong?
Andrew On 3 Oct 2008, at 13:45, William Brohinsky wrote: > Actually, Dowland's tuning is quite sensible. The rule of 18 sets a > lute (in theory, neglecting string stretch caused by sideways > displacement at the finger and fret) to very-nearly equal temperament. > Apparently, the stretch added by actually fingering the strings brings > it very very close. .. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
