On May 13, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Sean Smith wrote: > Yes, theoretically. But meantone's saving grace on the ren lute is > that the "keys" of G, C, and their minors use much of the same > keyboard so you don't really have to change any fret positions > (mostly white keys on the piano w/ a few Bb's and Cb's). So you're > essentially safe in 85% of the music --w/ a few exceptions of course. > > But. When you move to a key in A or Amin, E and Emin, Fmin and > Bbmin, then things start to get wonky (ie, a lot of flats or sharps). > > Think about that 1st course, 1st fret. If you're playing an Ab on > it you're ok for most of the rep. If you need to play a G# that > means the fret has to be in the other position (closer to the nut: > the tastini position). Same goes for 2nd course, 1st fret: if > you're playing an Eb, that's fine usually but if it needs to be a > D# you have to put the fret in the tastini position again. > > I know this is a generalized way of looking at only one small > aspect of meanton on the lute. And I don't mean this at all to be > applicable to the baroque lute whatsoever.
Just curious, but what do you do on Baroque lutes, leave the frets where they are and alter the tuning of the open thirds? DR [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
