My understanding is that, generally speaking, the purpose of the octave is to brighten up a course which would otherwise sound too muddy. Since 'muddiness' increases with string thickness, if the 5th course doesn't need an octave, then why would the 4th course would need one?
Miles On 2011-11-25, at 8:04 AM, Anthony Hind wrote: > Matthias, I am not quite sure why we may infer the following: > "I understand the author as saying that a) he himself has an octave > string > with his 5th course, as opposed to b) Dentice and followers (Italians > in > general?) who have unisons for the 5th course. One may infer that > Dentice > also had unisons for his 4th course." Mathias > I have unissons on the 5th course of my 7c lute, but octaves on my > fourth, but perhaps I have missed something. > Regards > Anthony > __________________________________________________________________ > > De : Mathias Roesel <[email protected]> > A : 'Lute Net' <[email protected]> > Envoye le : Jeudi 24 Novembre 2011 17h35 > Objet : [LUTE] Re: Le Roy Dentice and Octave stringing >> Neverthelesse the Tune self of the same .F. Is found in the same >> compainie, and eight of the greate fift stryng: >> which reason could not be in Lutes, tuned after the manner of Fabrice > Dentice >> the Italian, and other his followers. Where those strynges that > satnde > twoo and >> twoo together, bee sette in one Tune and not by eightes, which thei > do for > a >> perfection of harmonie, in avoiding many unissons, which those eight > would >> cause." >> 2. I understand Le Roy is saying that Dentice used a unison 5th > course, > not just a >> unison 4th. Is this right? > I understand the author as saying that a) he himself has an octave > string > with his 5th course, as opposed to b) Dentice and followers (Italians > in > general?) who have unisons for the 5th course. One may infer that > Dentice > also had unisons for his 4th course. > Mathias > 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/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html > --
