Dear Alain,
that's wonderful! You saved my evening after a particular hard day.
I'm going to try to tune my lute now ...
Cheers, Joachim
"Alain Veylit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
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>>On Martedì, giu 8, 2004, at 07:10 Europe/Rome, Jon Murphy wrote:
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>> > What is "re-entrant tuning".
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>--I thought re-entrant tuning was when you stop the other guys from playing
>so you get a second chance to tune.
>--In a solo setting, re-entrant tuning means to stop mid-way through a
>piece to adjust the tuning so that difficult fingerings are made easier to
>play. Jimmy Hendrix used it a lot, but because he was a sloppy player, he
>did not bother to stop playing.
>--Re-entrant tuning is to be distinguished from "recursive tuning":
>recursive tuning consists in successively tuning the same string to all the
>pitches needed for your instrument.
>--To tune a lute: tighten the chanterelle carefully until it breaks, then
>unwind a quarter turn. Finally, tune all the other strings on the chanterelle.
>--Tuning: the act by which a perfectly good instrument is made to sound
>totally off.
>--Temperament: the state of mind or mood that follows an attempt to tune
>your instrument. Traditionally, among lutenists, temperaments go from
>choleric to depressed (or melancholic).
>--Equal temperament: a state of persistent despondency following many
>failed attempts to tune. Sometimes results in an attempt to tune all the
>strings to the same pitch to make it easier.
>--Chromatic scale: the results of applying different colors to all the
>courses on your archlute so as to give a chance to your right hand to know
>which one is which (see also under "Rainbow coalition")
>--"High-fifth": what two lutenists give to each other after tuning to each
>other.
>--Thumb under: what 2 lutenists get for failing to tune successfully to
>each other
>--Re-entrant tuning is also used to describe the particular sound of a lute
>hitting the ground really hard after yet another failed attempt at tuning
>it - probably by analogy with a re-entry into the atmosphere. (see also
>under "sonic boom")
>--D minor tuning: as opposed to major tuning, i.e. when you only bother to
>tune all courses up from the fourth one, carefully leaving the bourdons
>untouched.
>--Octave tuning: describes the attempt at replacing a broken bass string
>with fishing line
>--Sonic boom: the sound made by a theorbo that was tuned just a tad too
>high, thereby separating the neck from the bowl.
>--Pythagorean ratios: an act of revenge taken by mathematicians on musicians
>--Tuning with gut is generally more difficult because it involves letting
>your instinct tell you exactly where 415MHz is as well as chose what gauges
>to use for each course.
>--Ashcroft tuning: designates a long period of silence in a classical music
>concert hall.
>--Ashcroft tuning (2): the attempt to tune your lute as if it were a
>5-string banjo in order to be able to apply for an NEH grant. (generally
>followed by a sonic boom)
>--Tuned in fourths: when you only bother to tune every fourth string
>--Tuned in fifths: no one is lazy enough in the lute world to do it, but
>widely in use in the violin family of instruments
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>If you don't get all the jokes above, you have not been playing the lute
>long enough...
>Alain
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