And besides- metal frets will quickly chew up your precious gut strings.
Not very economical.......
RT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Shoskes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mathias Rösel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "'Lute List'" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 5:35 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: fret stringing, was: historical lute stringings
The other issue is tuning. Even with equal temperment, there will be
times when the 1st course needs a slightly different fret position
than the lower courses for all to be in tune. I believe it's related
to the fingerboard curvature and to the different thicknesses of the
strings. I often end up with my 13 course having some of the frets on
a slight diagonal.
DS
On Nov 4, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Mathias Rösel wrote:
"Narada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
I'd also like the lists opinion on fixed metal frets, I had a rather
heated
discussion with a classical guitarist recently who was very critical of
what
he called the 'plastic frets' that we lutenists use.
Every now and then when courses go buzzing on the 2nd and 3rd frets,
signalling that they have become too low and must be replaced, I'm
pondering on advantages of metal frets.
Paul O'Dette said in that YouTube video, the reason for movable gut
frets was that they can be shifted, in case mean tone temperament is
required. If that proves to be the only reason, I shall seriously think
about putting metal frets on my lute, the baroque lute in particular
which has no meantone fret shifting.
--
Mathias
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