Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: > you still can't truly fret any instrument to any > temperament scheme other than roughly equal temperament without > tastini or > some other device for sectioning frets.
This may be correct as a matter of mathematics, but it doesn't work like this in the real world. Most of us on this list set our frets unequally, and we do it with tied-on frets without tastini. I think your statement exalts theory over practice; or perhaps you're using "temperament scheme" in a sense so restrictive as to be of no practical use. > A fretted instrument can never quite be in tune with a keyboard without > using a fair number of tastini or some other device for segmenting > frets, > especially in remote keys. The exception, of course, is equal tempered > keyboards playing along with frets set to approximate equal > temperament. Since equal temperament obviously was not universal until > more recently, I suspect the period ear might have been a little more > tolerant of a little tonal ambiguity between tone colors. These days unequally tempered lutes, theorbos and guitars play with unequally tempered harpsichords and organs all the time. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
