Dear Howard, Well - until we have a more quantifiable idea of the objective results of what people actually hear 'by their ears' we're in a land of make-believe where vague unquantifiable assertion carries more weight than any scientific considerations. It's surely not much to ask of those, who have somehow set their frets according to what they perceive as being some particular preferred 'meantone', to share the fruits of their work by publishing their measurable fret positions. As it is it is hard to see what is meant by setting a lute entirely in 'meantone' since, without multiple movable frets (as, for example, Thompson's experimental guitar) this is simply not physically possible since, as also said before, it fails to properly address the core issue of minor and major semitones on different courses but on the same fret. As also already remarked: who knows, it might even lead to some helpful consensus. MH
On Friday, 26 July 2019, 17:11:50 BST, howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote: You might want to reread the part about using your ears. "Precise fret positions" is an irrelevant concept if you tune by actually listening; that's why your repeated demands for numbers are going unanswered. > On Jul 26, 2019, at 6:40 AM, Martyn Hodgson <[1]hodgsonmar...@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote: > > Thank you Stephan, > Would you kindly share what precise fret positions result when you set > the > 'fifth fret so high that you can still enjoy and work your way > through.....' > MH > > On Friday, 26 July 2019, 13:17:31 BST, Stephan Olbertz > <[2]stephan.olbe...@web.de> wrote: > You wouldn't even need a tuner. Just set a fifth fret so high that you > can > still enjoy and work your way through all the other frets and open > courses > by means of comparing octaves and unisons. > Use strings that are neither too old nor too new. And be sure to tune > to a > fourth based tuning. > Regards > Stephan > > Im Auftrag > von Roland Hayes > Gesendet: Freitag, 26. Juli 2019 13:36 > An: Martyn Hodgson; [3][3]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; Steve Ramey > Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Test 9od temperament) > Or you could get a meantone tuner and use your ears and not a > measuring > tape > Get [1]Outlook for Android > __________________________________________________________________ To get on or off this list see list information at [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:hodgsonmar...@cs.dartmouth.edu 2. mailto:stephan.olbe...@web.de 3. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
