Perhaps, having movable frets, an appropriate approach would be to find some predominant chords in a selection of pieces and tune to those chords. Retune between groupings. Makes designing a program trickier, but possibly with more consistent consonance. Unless, of course, you're aiming for distinctive dissonances to define various modes.
I'm not trying to promote any particular tuning method--every lute and its player are different. Just playing with ideas for tuning toward best outcome. There's always the chance that after one has gotten those gut strings "perfect" someone will turn on the air conditioning. Leonard Sorry if this is a duplicate mailing -----Original Message----- From: Martin Shepherd <mar...@luteshop.co.uk> To: Lute List <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Thu, Mar 8, 2018 11:11 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: meantone tuning tech I was not advocating any particular temperament, just trying to explain that even in equal temperament, the fifths are not pure. M --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. [1]https://www.avast.com/antivirus To get on or off this list see list information at [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. https://www.avast.com/antivirus 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html