Dan, I was referring to a fletching adhesive that I think you
suggested for a tastino. Ring a bell ...perhaps with pure overtones?
On Oct 29, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Dan Winheld wrote:
No tricks. Just a solid hunk of lumber with enough felt to clamp down
the 8ve strings along with their fatso fundamental partners- and a 72
cm. SL lute with 10 tied frets in EQUAL temperament. Fantastic lute, 8
course at E or E flat, by Barber & Harris. Sold it (with regrets)
along with the capo. Have not capo'ed a lute since.
My only capo friendly instrument these days is a 7 string, steel-
string 14 fret neck guitar. Again, equal temperament- which sounds
horrible on steel strings once you've had a good meantone experience.
Dan
On 10/29/2013 5:50 PM, Sean Smith wrote:
Hi Leonard,
I should think a capo --in theory, anyway-- could work at most any
fret; just adjust your frets accordingly in The Pattern. (You'll
miss out on that tastino goodness unless you can fashion one to
stick down where you need it but I think Dan Winheld had a trick for
that, too) You'll move fewer frets, however, if you place it at the
2nd, 5th and (maybe) the 4th fret.
Btw, it's pretty easy to make a quick-n-dirty capo: Use a pencil and
a shoelace in a figure-eight around the pencil ends behind the neck.
Sean
On Oct 29, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Leonard Williams wrote:
I know this has come up on several occasions‹Capo with anything
but equal
temperament doesn¹t work. I¹ve noticed, however, a pattern to
meantone
fret placements, the space between frets being (starting at the nut,
relative to ET placement) long to 1st, short to 2nd, long to 3rd,
short to
4th, etc. Would a capo work if placed at the second or fourth frets,
thereby maintaining the pattern? I don¹t use or even have a capo,
so I
can¹t try this out. Any adventurous souls out there?
Thanks and regards,
Leonard Williams
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