Dear David,
I am sure you are anything but crazy. :-)
The craziness I had in mind, was someone with a modern Neapolitan
mandoline tuned in fifths, fixing unmovable metal frets into the
fingerboard, unequally spaced, thus limiting the number of notes
available for modern music.
Your baroque
Dear lutists
Another very basic question about Meantone tuning. As we have taken
on board the idea that the 'old ones' first tuned the top string to
breaking point and then tuned up the other strings in relation to
that (I know this is probably not necessarily true, in particular for
Dear Mathias,
Funny you should produce this chart. I did one of my own earlier today,
much simpler, but with the same conclusion. I ignored the 7th to 11th
courses, which present less of a problem, because they are usually
played open. This was my chart for the first three courses of a baroque
