On Tue, Jan 27, 2009, Jean-Marie Poirier <[email protected]> said:
> Why did people ealier than Neusidler make good use of the 11th and 12th frets > then ? We might be entitled to suppose that the earlier lutes were not as > reliable, or at least less "efficient" than the later ones, and yet Dalza or > Spinaccino don't hesitate to use these 2 upper frets... could have been intonation issues (fixed frets); could have been flexible top. Orpharions have a fingerboard that extends under all the frets, and with fixed frets all the way whatever temperament was preset is what you were stuck with. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
