I use my tuner at 415 and 6th comma meantone. First I tune the open strings. Then I select pitches I know I need on the strings at certain frets and move the fret to get the pitch right. So a piece with D Major I would want a good F# on fourth course 1st fret, so I'll try to move the fret to match the pitch. (Baroque lute, also for 1st course. ) Many frets involve trade-offs, good for some notes, false for others. Often you can see a composer's familiarity with this situation in the composition. r Luis Milan comes to mind. r
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of WALSH STUART Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 3:24 PM To: lutelist Net Subject: [LUTE] how to use Korg OT-120 for Pythagorean tuning? I only have a vague idea about temperaments and I have a Korg OT-120 and I'd like to try some out. With ET it's just a matter of setting the thing to 440 (or whatever) but with non-ET I don't know what to do. Do you have to define the fundamental note from which the non-ET scale starts? I have a simple psaltery and a gittern. The psaltery's lowest note is G below middle C but perhaps it would be better to think of the C as the main note (which goes down to G and upwards from C). I have no idea what to do with the tuner. The gittern is different again. I know that modern-day lute players move some of the frets (second and fourth I think) . But what would they do using a tuner? Any ideas or help would be much appreciated. Stuart --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
