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
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