If you have a temperament with two sets of notes, for frets, one of which is flat and one of which is right on, then you can pull the flat notes "up" into tune and leave the others in tune. You can also "forward" a note slightly flatter, but I can't do that reliably. d __________________________________________________________________
From: hera caius <caiush2...@yahoo.com> To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tue, February 7, 2012 1:23:25 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: imperfectly tune --- On Tue, 2/7/12, hera caius <[1]caiush2...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: hera caius <[2]caiush2...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [LUTE] imperfectly tune To: "Nicolae Szekely" <[3]mikiszek...@yahoo.com> Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 11:22 AM There is no "perfect" tuning. There are several ways to tune the lute instruments. [1][4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament From my experience I can tell you that you can't have all the notes on all frets at equal temperament in the same moment. You can adjust the frets that you use more often (usually in the first position) and you must be patient and forget about "perfect"/"imperfect". By the way, as I played your lute before I can tell you in that moment was very good. --- On Mon, 2/6/12, Nicolae Szekely <[5]mikiszek...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Nicolae Szekely <[6]mikiszek...@yahoo.com> Subject: [LUTE] imperfectly tune To: [7]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Monday, February 6, 2012, 12:43 PM In fact, what things do to a good tune of a lute ? after 4 years, I can't tune my lute... It is a lute ? (imperfect construction?) Or the strings ? I use New Nilgut. I thing the soundboard makes some harmonics that "harm" the perfect sound. Maybe it is some secrets to make a verry good lute (sounboard) ? I am a little dispered... I cant play on lute when, for example, the first string, in a position, is correctly "g", but in c position is NOT "a" .... Sorry for my bad english. -- To get on or off this list see list information at [2][8]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. [9]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament 2. [10]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:caiush2...@yahoo.com 2. mailto:caiush2...@yahoo.com 3. mailto:mikiszek...@yahoo.com 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament 5. mailto:mikiszek...@yahoo.com 6. mailto:mikiszek...@yahoo.com 7. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 8. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html 9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament 10. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html