On 21 January 2012 12:50, William Samson <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's a lovely performance by Hesperion XXI. I was amused to see the > extremes of fret placement on the viols - some pretty much equal > temperament and others (the lirone for example) with very UN-equal
Viol players will adjust the pitches of individual notes by the placement and/or pressure of their fingers. Some can play unequal temperaments with equal fretting, others need to adjust their frets much more. I've played with consorts where they didn't like sharing their instruments, precicley for that reason; when swapping instruments, the players had to adjust the fretting to their liking, not to the teperament used. On a lyrone, it's quite a different story because you have to fret chords, where unequal fretting will surely help playing in unequal temperament, as adjusting all the individual notes in a chors by finger placement and/or pressure is beyond us (beyond me, anyway). David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
