> I have made the point before that we would expect an instrument > designed to be played at AF6 to have strings about 83% the length > of an instrument designed to be played at A=390. If so, all other > things being equal, you'd expect that a 76cm instrument designed for > AF5 to be tuned the same way as a 92cm instrument designed for > A=390. Whether this was historically the case is a matter of > speculation.
This got garbled in transmission; some server somewhere translated my "[equals sign] 4" as an F something. I'll try to do an immune version here: we would expect an instrument designed to be played at A equals 466 Hz to have strings about 83% the length of an instrument designed to be played at A=390. If so, all other things being equal, you'd expect that a 76cm instrument designed for A equals 466 to be tuned the same way as a 92cm instrument designed for A=390. Whether this was historically the case is a matter of speculation. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
