[VIHUELA] Re: Temperaments & Fretting on Early Guitars

2019-05-12 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Dear Edward, The problem with employing an unequal temperament on the five course guitar is the prevalence of sliding chord shapes employed on every fret in much of the extant repertoire - ie Alfabeto. This has also been pointed out in previous communications and papers. M.H.

[VIHUELA] Re: Temperaments & Fretting on Early Guitars

2019-05-12 Thread David van Ooijen
I use 1/4-comma MT on my B-guitar when needed. High first fret with tastini (singular?) for g# on 3rd string (E-major chord!). David *** David van Ooijen [1]davidvanooi...@gmail.com [2]www.davidvanooijen.nl *** On

[VIHUELA] Temperaments & Fretting on Early Guitars

2019-05-12 Thread Edward Yong
Hi everyone! I'm thinking about exploring meantone on my renaissance and baroque guitars. At the moment they are in equal temperament, but I usually have my renaissance lute in 1/4 comma meantone and my baroque archlute in 1/6 comma (unless I'm doing earlier music). I was wondering about