[BAROQUE-LUTE] gigue C-dur

2012-06-24 Thread Roman Turovsky
http://polyhymnion.org/swv/music/la-arndt.mp3 http://polyhymnion.org/swv/music/la-arndt.pdf Enjoy, RT To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: advice on Jorge Sentieiro wanted

2012-06-24 Thread hera caius
I've met Sentieiro a few years ago in Basel. He is a nice guy and the instruments from his workshop (what he had in that moment) were excellent. If you want, you can contact my lute maker also maybe he has time to do this instrument: loril...@yahoo.com --- On Fri, 6/22/12, David

[LUTE] Tuning

2012-06-24 Thread Edward Mast
A question perhaps better posed on a bowed string forum, but I'm confident someone here can help me. When tuning my cello with a Korg chromatic electronic tuner, what pitches am I tuning to? Is it tempered tuning? The reason I ask is that though I usually tune the A string from the tuner and

[LUTE] Re: Tuning

2012-06-24 Thread David van Ooijen
We would presume if you tune fifths by ear, you would tune them pure, but ... if you have listened to fifths in equal temperament long enough in your life, you might well unwittingly tune tempered fifths by ear. So much for conditioning. In equal temperament fifths are about 2 cents smaller than

[LUTE] Re: Tuning

2012-06-24 Thread William Samson
Hi Ned, Pure fifths and equal-tempered fifths are pretty damn close to each other - slightly under 2 cents difference. I think the human ear - even of a good piano tuner - will have difficulty picking up this difference and will have to depend on beats to distinguish them. The

[LUTE] Re: Tuning

2012-06-24 Thread William Brohinsky
When intentionally tuning a cello to perfect fifths, use the octave harmonic (divides the string in half) on the upper string, and the 'third' harmonic, i.e., the one that divides the lower string in thirds. For tuning A against D, for instance, your little finger should touch the same point where