Or my favorite Tibetan "mind" verse:
"Homage to the mind, which, like a wish-fulfilling gem, grants us all that we desire." C. >>> Daniel Winheld <[email protected]> 7/31/2009 12:35 PM >>> ...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 -- -- To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute
