On Feb 17, 2009, at 5:43 PM, chriswi...@yahoo.com wrote: > How many of us really follow this "fundamental of lute stringing" > today? We tune our instruments to arbitrarily agreed upon pitches > like 415, 392, 440 etc because its practical. If we were to do the > truly historical thing, Jeff's G lute would be at 449, Joe's at > 412, Tina's at 463 and Bill's at 398.
That wouldn't have worked in 1610 either. They all had to use an agreed pitch if they were going to play together, unless they were into the whole John Cage thing. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
