On Thursday 16 March 2006 12:19, Ed Durbrow wrote: > On Mar 13, 2006, at 6:37 AM, Nancy Carlin wrote: > > Possible > > reasons for this are that it was written out as part of someone > > lute lesson > > on how to play these chords, or that there was something about the > > intonation being better in these configurations. However, I can't > > imagine > > the intonation being better when you play 6th course-5th fret, > > compared to > > 5th course-open. > > What period are you talking about? Maybe an octave on the 6th and > unison on 5th would make a big difference. >
When some kind of meantone tuning was used this could explain the use of the 5th fret. taco To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
