Food for thought, thank you for those quotes.
I always explain MT to my pupils with a piece of paper and a pencil,
then let them use their ears to position their frets, and finally
explain about easy way out with the computer/tuner options.
Out there with keyboard players I rely on a tuner, but many of my
fretted colleages (viols, violones and lutes/theorbos) still sit with
their instrument behind the keyboard, adjusting fret by fret to ear.
It is indeed a fact of modern day early music life that we cannot
survive without knowing how to set some sort of non ET on our continuo
lutes.
David
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On Sun, 13 May 2018 at 16:40, Ron Andrico <[3]praelu...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Things are a bit weird with the formatting of this thread.
Without
links, the reference to Otterstedt's review of Dolata's book is:
Annette Otterstedt, "Fretting about tuning", Early Music, volume
45,
number 4, November, 2017, p. 676.
A few short choice quotes:
"But in advocating a system that leans heavily on electronic
crutches,
Dolata devises something that probably never existed, because
people at
a time when even simple arithmetics were difficult could hardly
have
made such calculations. It does not make sense to translate the
vague
remarks by for example Gerle, Ganassi or Dowland into concrete
figures..."
"The explanation for Dolata's view âthat many of today's finest
players
of fretted instruments arrange their frets in meantone
temperaments
whenever possible is indisputable' (p.9) is simple: fashion. Not
moving
with the tide can wreck a career, for the pressure to conform in
âearly
music' is great. Fishing in the troubled waters of musical
temperament
has become âcool' with computers enabling the user to dabble
without a
thought of how temperaments splitting the comma unevenly could
have
been put into practice in former times. It is no coincidence that
this
discussion began among lutenists at the same time as the first
computer
programmes emerged."
RA
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