[LUTE] Re: Mean tone temperament

[Roman Turovsky]

It is a whole series of invective starting with , as I recall, L'Artusi, 
overo delle imperfettioni della moderna musica (1600).
RT
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>> (Monteverdi was attacked by Artusi for tuning in ET).
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> Quote please! And the proof that Artusi really was speaking of ET.
> (Remember you are now talking of my composer hero! :-)
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> (BTW, when I played theorbo in the Poppea, I set also another "tastino"
> to my theorbo to make it possible to play a beautiful thirds in B-major
> and c-minor chords - the fret was set so that d sharp is good, the
> tastino was on the _other_ side of the fret, higher, for e flat. Worked
> ery well and I did not need to suffer the ugly and horrible thirds of
> the ET. :-)
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> Arto
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