> On Jul 23, 2019, at 9:07 AM, Alain Veylit wrote:
>
> I have a practical question : is it common practice for Baroque lute players
> to also adjust their frets when they change their diapason tuning?
No, it’s common practice to tune the diapasons to the fretted notes if tuning
them to G,
Never ever.
There seem to be people, though, who shift their 4th frets a bit down
so as to get something close to the pure major third on the 1st to 6th
courses.
There's no need at all to do that IMHO as long as the lute is properly
tuned.
Mathias
And not to forget Stefan Lundgren's chamber opera on that very incident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMkbZ3tfFjs
Best wishes,
David
At 19:18 +0200 23/7/19, Lex van Sante wrote:
The name of the violinist was Petit, who thought that his host
(Weiss) had spoken against him when he was
The name of the violinist was Petit, who thought that his host (Weiss) had
spoken against him when he was applying for a job in Dresden.
Cheers,
Lex
> Op 23 jul. 2019, om 17:58 heeft howard posner het
> volgende geschreven:
>
> The biter was a violinist. The bitee was Weiss.
>
>> On
I have a practical question : is it common practice for Baroque lute
players to also adjust their frets when they change their diapason tuning?
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The biter was a violinist. The bitee was Weiss.
> On Jul 23, 2019, at 8:45 AM, theoj89...@new-old-mail.cs.dartmouth.edu wrote:
>
> Didn't a musician (lute player?) try to bite the thumb off another
> musician? I can't remember the details-
> I bet the disagreement was over tempered tuning.
Didn't a musician (lute player?) try to bite the thumb off another
musician? I can't remember the details-
I bet the disagreement was over tempered tuning.
They didn't have the internet back then.
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sometimes even with bagpipes.
RT
On 7/22/2019 1:59 PM, r.turov...@gmail.com wrote:
Citterns play in only 2 keys, and hardly ever with other instruments.
so it is not a problem there.
RT
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Feci quod potui. Faciant meliora potentes.
On Jul 22, 2019, at 10:47 AM, David
Martyn wrote:
"Much is freely bandied with phrases about 1/4 comma, 1/6 comma, 1/8 comma
and other unequal temperaments but rarely ... is it ever spelt out what
precise numerical fretting positions are actually employed..."
..or what comma is used, one might add. It does make a difference, and
Further to all this, but on a slightly different tack: what precisely
is it that individuals mean when they advocate some particular form of
unequal temperament on the lute?
Much is freely bandied with phrases about 1/4 comma, 1/6 comma, 1/8
comma and other unequal temperaments but
Some inspiring quotes:
"I once had a lute whose frets were loose,
and I could play nothing, nothing but the blues ... " (Robert Johnson)
"Temperaments are affairs of taste, not affairs of state." (Talleyrand,
quoting Rameau quoting Aristotle's lost treatise on music).
"Playing a lute with
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