>In short: easy to do, proven to work, And I owe David a beer, at least. >dt
Well then I owe him a case. Also you, Sean Smith, Omer, and everyone else who has contributed to the meantone threads. That, in conjunction with with the break-in and tone discussions have empowered and informed me to improve the sound on my vihuela 100%. Uniform gut stringing all the way (old, ill matching gut & gut substitutes removed and thrown back onto the "gutpile"- an ancient peanut brittle box with dried entrails going back to the 1970's) ..and 1/4 comma meantone fretting -including an f# & c# tastino behind the 1st fret. Only sound check has been borrowed ears- Sean Smiith's, my wife's, my own. So far so good. I had to remove the 3rd fret g# tastino from the 4th course to play an f-minor recercar by Marco D'Aquila, but so far so good. Dan -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
