Placing the capo at the 2nd fret on a guitar tuned to A=440 would be
equivalent to G=415 lute pitch. More method to the madness than first
appears.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Franz Mechsner" <[email protected]>
To: "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[email protected]>; "Daniel Winheld"
<[email protected]>; "lute" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 10:18 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Alto lute help
When I played the guitar, I often put a capo on 2nd (rarely 3rd) fret
for renaissance pieces transcribed from lute because I felt they
sounded better like that. I had no idea about the lute and thought I
put the pieces too high... So was that silly? And if yes, why? Somehow
I missed the whole threat of discussion here, thus I am not so
enlightened as I should probably be...
Franz
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Von: [email protected] im Auftrag von Eugene C. Braig IV
Gesendet: Mo 20.07.2009 18:12
An: 'Daniel Winheld'; lute
Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Alto lute help
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [[1]mailto:[email protected]]
On
> Behalf Of Daniel Winheld
> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 6:06 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Alto lute help
>
> It's been enjoyable for me to sit back and watch this discussion
> develop along its predictable yet excellent path- and I especially
> love Martin's description of the "grim determination of guitarists to
> use a capo at the 3rd fret" -come Hell or high water, no matter what,
> because a Renaissance solo lute is a G instrument, God Damn it! (It's
> OK, I was one of those guitarists myself very many years ago)
[Eugene C. Braig IV] I never was. That's a rather silly and arbitrary
"determination" and, I think, much rarer than it was a few decades ago.
Eugene
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