Yes Bruno, the fret spacing is different than that used in equal temperament.
See David van Ooijen's website-> http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ Click the Yellow box (shows a lute rose?). Under his Writings tab on the left side navigation pane, select Meantone Temperament for Lute. An excellent article with directions to set up a Renaissance G tuned lute for One Quarter Comma Meantone Temperament, and One Sixth Comma Meantone Temperament (used more frequently by lutenists who wish to play in ensembles with other musicians). Regards, Stephen. On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 16:45 -0300, Bruno Correia wrote: > Dear Stephen, > > Thanks for the photos, I've never seen anything like this before! It's > impressive to see how unequal the frets are placed, I imagine it's > because of the 4th comma meantone. > Recently I played on a vihuela with this fret placement (without the > tastini) and sounded very nice, however a bit difficult to understand > the left hand... > > Thanks for your kind response. > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
