ps Those "ugly thirds" are problematic only in major keys, anyway. Conversely I find meantone 10ths ugly, especially in parallel passages thereof. RT
> It is a whole series of invective starting with , as I recall, L'Artusi, > overo delle imperfettioni della moderna musica (1600). > RT >> >>> (Monteverdi was attacked by Artusi for tuning in ET). >> >> Quote please! And the proof that Artusi really was speaking of ET. >> (Remember you are now talking of my composer hero! :-) >> >> (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. :-) >> >> Arto >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > > > >