The music I was originally talking about was "Carmen's Whistle" by John Johnson, which I am playing on orpharion - wire strings which can easily be pulled out of tune with less than precise left hand fingering. Nancy
>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. > >Ed Durbrow >Saitama, Japan >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ > > > >-- > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Nancy Carlin Associates P.O. Box 6499 Concord, CA 94524 USA phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582 web site - www.nancycarlinassociates.com Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA web site - http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org --
