Thank you Daniel. So, as I understand it, the sole piece of HISTORICAL evidence is from Vincenzo Galilei's 'Fromino Dialogo' (1568,1584) translated by MacClintock (AIM 1985) as: "......Now I come to the matter of 'tastini' which lately some people seek to introduce to remove some of the sharpness from the thirds and major tenths (as they try to persuade those who are more foolish than they)" MacClintock goes on to say that he later 'points out that those using 'tastini' do not know much about thoery'. (Incidentally I can't find the original Italian quotes in my copy of the 1584 book - have you any source page numbers?) In short, the ONLY piece of historical evidence for 'tastini' seems to be a passing reference in the pedagogic writings of Galilei who himself eschews their use and mentions that some foolish and ignorant people 'seek'' to introduce them: - hardly, I suggest, a convincing case for their adoption in modern times. And particularly so considering that when other early sources write about fretting they signally fail to mention these extra little frets (eg Dowland 'Varietie') and they is no trace of them in contemporary iconography. If anybody else has other HISTORICAL evidence, I'd be grateful for it. rgds Martyn ' Daniel Shoskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday, April 04, 2005, at 12:57PM, Martyn Hodgson wrote: > >Would someone kindly remind me of all the historical evidence for ''tastini', >for their actual widespread use and examples of any iconography depicting them. I can only refer to what others have said: http://home.planet.nl/~d.v.ooijen/lgs/meantone.html http://www.luteshop.fsnet.co.uk/tuning.htm http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/fronimo.html Some professional players use them: http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/Heringman.html (both my teachers, Pat O'Brien and David Dolata do) To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com --
