[LUTE] Re: Guitar temperament

2012-01-24 Thread Gordon Gregory
Hi, I read and enjoyed Duffin's book, particularly the discussions about how many 19th century tuners and performers claimed they used equal temperament, but actually used their own special flavours of unequal (and that accurate equal temperament only became common on keyboards in 1915 or so).

[LUTE] Re: Guitar temperament

2012-01-24 Thread William Samson
Hi, I haven't read Duffin's book, but I can appreciate how people imagine they're using equal temperament when they aren't. Good guitarists, despite the fact that their frets are evenly spaced, will tweak their tuning before they start performing a piece, to ensure than the

[LUTE] Re: Guitar temperament

2012-01-24 Thread wikla
Hear hear!:-) Arto On 24/01/12 13:39, William Samson wrote: Hi, I haven't read Duffin's book, but I can appreciate how people imagine they're using equal temperament when they aren't. Good guitarists, despite the fact that their frets are evenly spaced, will tweak

[LUTE] Re: Guitar temperament

2012-01-24 Thread Ron Andrico
Since I teach guitar, like many others on this list, I have developed an easy method for tempering the tuning, and an explanation to go along with it. I get an 'A' from some reliable source and tune the 5th string as a natural harmonic at the 5th fret. I match and double-check

[LUTE] Re: Guitar temperament

2012-01-24 Thread David van Ooijen
On 24 January 2012 12:39, William Samson willsam...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:   Good guitarists, despite the fact that their frets are evenly ..   the performer rather than any theory of intervals. As Tommy Emmanuel said after tuning in last Sunday's concert: Good enough for jazz! David --

[LUTE] Re: Lute: Air Travel Advice

2012-01-24 Thread Ed Durbrow
On Jan 23, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Philip Soren wrote: I am about to move to China for 18 months for business. This is entirely too much time to be without my Renaissance lute. After calling both airlines and both airports that I will use to leave the country, the procedure

[LUTE] Re: costumes

2012-01-24 Thread Ed Durbrow
Wonderful costumes! Looks like a splendid time. On Apr 15, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Bernd Haegemann wrote: I just added some photos of 2 events to our site: Nightly renaissance dances in the remains of the old castle of Brussels (where St. Luc was storing his wine bottles)

[LUTE] Re: Guitar temperament

2012-01-24 Thread Stephan Olbertz
This won't work with most children guitars (and their strings) I know :-) I tune in octaves in the first position, that's where they play, anyway. Regards Stephan Am 24.01.2012, 13:18 Uhr, schrieb Ron Andrico praelu...@hotmail.com: Since I teach guitar, like many others on this list, I

[LUTE] Cantiones Sarmatoruthenicae 55 - 60

2012-01-24 Thread Roman Turovsky
Cantio Sarmatoruthenica LX - http://www.torban.org/sarmatoruthenicae/audio/364.mp3 http://www.torban.org/sarmatoruthenicae/images/364.pdf Cantio Sarmatoruthenica LІX - http://www.torban.org/sarmatoruthenicae/audio/363.mp3 http://www.torban.org/sarmatoruthenicae/images/363.pdf Cantio