Dear Steve,
Yes - the recent leading topic of the day (lute fretting temperaments)
also suddenly dried up!
Perhaps it's to do with advocates of various unequal temperaments
being put on the spot to actually give the fret positions they
supposedly
employ.....
Also see below
MH
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Martyn Hodgson <[email protected]
* To:[email protected] list 23 Jul at 08:31
Further to all this, but on a slightly different tack: what
precisely
is it that individuals mean when they advocate some particular
unequal temperament on the lute?
Much is freely bandied with phrases about 1/4 comma, 1/6 comma,
1/8
comma and other unequal temperaments but rarely (indeed never in
this latest thread) is it ever spelt out what precise numerical
fretting
positions are actually employed by the writer (see below for an
in ET of the sort of thing I mean).
Recently I enquired, off list to avoid possible embarrassment, of
one
contributor who seemed very firm in their convictions and asked
precisely what fretting pattern they employed and later I even
sent an
example (for ET) of the sort of simple numerical information I
was
asking about. Here it is (obviously, this theoretical example
doesn't
take into account the usual refinements necessary to adjust for
take-off point at the bridge and the slight effect on pitch of
displacement of a string when pressed down to the fingerboard):
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For example, in ET:
fret distance to fret from bridge
to four significant figures)
0 (nut) 1.0000
1 0.9439
2 0.8909
3 0.8410
4 0.7938
5 0.7493
6 0.7072
7 0.6675
8 0.6301
9 0.5947
10 0.5614
etc......
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It would surely be helpful in understanding an individual's
preference
for the particular temperament they advocate if the precise
fretting
positions were stated in any communication. Who knows, it might
even
lead to some sort of consensus.............
MH
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On Thursday, 25 July 2019, 19:17:30 BST, Steve Ramey
<[email protected]> wrote:
Haven't got anything from the list for a couple days. This is only a
test.
Steve
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