...and capoing at the 1st fret gives us A=392, and removing the capo
gives us A=370, Viola! Your "E" guitar is now a "G" lute after all!
It's all in the mind- As John Milton said (or was it Blake?), "The mind
is all! Can make a heaven out of hell and a hell out of heaven."
Basically, then one needs to re-educate the mind.
One of our learned colleagues (was that you, dt?) once said that the
smaller, higher pitched lutes more satisfactory for playing vocal
intabulations and that the larger ones were better for solos, generally
speaking of course.
Dan
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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