The reason for your 805:0 result could be that there aren't many musical situations in which that doubled F sharp would be desirable. You wouldn't normally double the third in a D major chord and, apart from the F sharp major chord in Sir John Langton's Pavin, there aren't many other chords in lute music that contain an F sharp at all, let alone two of them.
Peter On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 at 12:15, Rainer <[1][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 [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- null -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
