Dear Rob, This is a very interesting site. Congratulations on your nice playing at:
http://classic-banjo.ning.com/video/electric-light-reel-picnic Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob MacKillop Sent: 22 May 2009 23:00 To: Roman Turovsky Cc: Lute List Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute recordings in meantone There may be one or two of you interested in the banjo c.1860-1900 (as I am). There was a period of squabbles and unrest as players moved from fretless instruments to fretted ones. Many of the old (fretless) guys complained that the new frets forced you to play out of tune. Some makers responded by manufacturing instruments with split frets, as in this photo: [1]http://classic-banjo.ning.com/photo/zb-split-fret-detail?context=lat est The note in question is the third of a major chord - in A tuning (the older pitch - pitch rose to C tuning during this period) the C# was more called for than a Db. Rob -- References 1. http://classic-banjo.ning.com/photo/zb-split-fret-detail?context=latest To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
