Dowland is quite late -------- Messaggio originale -------- Da: [email protected] Data: 27/07/19 17:32 (GMT+01:00) A: Rainer <[email protected]> Cc: Lute net <[email protected]> Oggetto: [LUTE] Re: Test 9od temperament)
F# on the 4th course shows up quite a lot in Dowland. RT ==== http://turovsky.org Feci quod potui. Faciant meliora potentes. > On Jul 27, 2019, at 7:09 AM, Rainer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 26.07.2019 21:53, tribioli wrote: >> Everything you need about fret positions is written in David van Oojien >> page about temperaments. I use the 1/6 comma (pythagorean) with the >> first fret to the A flat position (for a G first string). That gives a >> very wrong F sharp on the IV course (it is a G flat indeed) but old >> music does show D major chord with the F sharp to the IV course really >> really seldom (that's another thing that seems to show they used some >> sort of temperament) > > > Excellent! Facts - some people have serious problems with facts. > >> on 15.05.2018 (obviously before the football World Cup) I wrote: >> >> Another argument, I have not seen here, yet. >> In unequal [must be equal] temperament all octaves are pure. >> In 1/6 meantone the octave 2e, 4b is not pure at all. >> There is a piece by de Rippe where he uses 2e and 5g instead. >> I have run a regular expression search (the computer gurus will know) on all my tab files (to scan Fronimo files is impossible, the format is binary): >> the octave 2d, 4a occurs 805 times. >> The octave2e, 4b occurs 0 [yes zero] times. >> I think this is a rather convincing argument, is it not? >> Rainer >> The regular expression is not very sophisticated since it does not properly handle ornaments. But 805:0 is even better than Germany's 7:1 :) > > Rainer > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
