I agree with Mathias. ET works best for d minor tuned lutes.
ed At 05:16 PM 12/11/2009, Mathias Rösel wrote:
I never tried to get MT on the 11c lute. Taking the a's and fourth frets a bit down seems about all you can do if you absolutely want to. I don't because IMHO 11c lutes in D minor tuning were invented, so to say, for ET. The same applies to the predecessors and company of the D minor tuning, i. e. so-called transitional tunings. Mathias "wikla" <wi...@cs.helsinki.fi> schrieb: > > Dear baroque lutenists, > > getting into the d-minor tuned lute's secrets seems to be an interesting > task! Among the many first impressions - partly good, partly not so good - > was one of the latter: it looked like you really should get used to the > equal temperament - to me quite heavy a sacrifice. Anyhow, after asking my > former lute teacher and taking a look to his 11-courser, I got the idea > that at least you can make your F-major and some other keys better by > tuning the a's a little bit lower and taking the 4th fret a little lower; > then there you have the a(low), f# and c#. All of them good to be low in > many important keys. > > Anyhow g-minor seems to be problematic: eb's and f#'s seem always want to > be on the same fret in the neigboring strings. And I guess there will be no > good D-major unless you tune the 1st and 4th to f#. They also used that > scordatura in the 17th anf 18th centuries. > > Any comments, experiences or hints in getting better intonation than the ET > in d-minor tuned lutes? > > Best, > > Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
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