[VIHUELA] Re: Mean tone temperament

2006-03-30 Thread Stephan . Olbertz
Am 29 Mar 2006 um 17:00 hat Edward Martin geschrieben: > Howard, > > I agree with everything you said, totally. That is exactly my > practice with fret placement. slightly diminish the 2nd & 4th > frets, for renaissance tuning. ..and adjust the open courses and the other frets accordingly,

[VIHUELA] Re: Meantone temperament

2006-03-28 Thread Stephan . Olbertz
Am 27 Mar 2006 um 13:52 hat Eugene C. Braig IV geschrieben: > At 01:20 PM 3/27/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Of course. The thing is that not all equal temperaments are equal, > > Of course indeed. > > > >...so citing from historic sources proofes nothing as long as the > >mathematical stuf

[VIHUELA] Re: Meantone temperament

2006-03-27 Thread Stephan . Olbertz
Of course. The thing is that not all equal temperaments are equal, so citing from historic sources proofes nothing as long as the mathematical stuff is included. Regards, Stephan Am 27 Mar 2006 um 10:13 hat Eugene C. Braig IV geschrieben: > At 06:31 AM 3/26/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >

[VIHUELA] Re: Meantone temperament

2006-03-26 Thread Stephan . Olbertz
(Sorry for the crossposting, but this seems to be a two-list-thread.) I'd like to take the oppurtunity to once again point out Bradley Lehman's Bach-tuning, which can be studied at http://www.larips.com According to his argumentation, equal could well have meant to be _equal-sounding_ in sever

[VIHUELA] Re: Vihuela tutor book

2005-12-14 Thread Stephan . Olbertz
I also ordered a copy, thanks for the information! BTW, there is still a spanish article by Griffiths about Ms 40032 that I would like to read in English... or is it already around? Regards, Stephan Am 14 Dec 2005 um 16:25 hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] geschrieben: > Greetings Rob, > > Thank you

[VIHUELA] Re: nice charango page

2005-12-02 Thread Stephan . Olbertz
Am 2 Dec 2005 um 8:09 hat Manolo Laguillo geschrieben: > By the way: I want to tell you that I enjoy very much your fresh way of > pointing very often in the right direction with your questioning! Good for you. Others feel that he is polluting several lists with his charango crap. But ok - we al

[VIHUELA] Re: What is the historical vihuela?

2005-10-27 Thread Stephan . Olbertz
Am 26 Oct 2005 um 8:48 hat Howard Posner geschrieben: > In the 1970's, a record company put out a re-issue of some of Bream's > recordings entitled " the Spanish Guitar" or "the Classical Guitar." > Its front cover consisted of the title and a large picture of a > standard-issue American-style

Re: Ramillete de Flores

2005-02-28 Thread Stephan Olbertz
Dear Garry, I have the Alpuerto version. It wasn't cheap and I found it not that useful because of the countless editorial decisions that had been made for transcribing the manuscript into tablature and guitar notation. I would definitely love to see the facsimile, but I seem to remember that i

Re: MO

2005-02-28 Thread Stephan Olbertz
m the truth, and this list remains > unmoderated. > > Roman, you are welcome to this list. You are doubtless happy that MO has > gone, however there are many of us who wish he had stayed. > > Everyone: let's get along. We are all in this together. > > Rob > >

Re: MO

2005-02-28 Thread Stephan Olbertz
Dear Rob, I didn't know that this list is moderated. While in the past there were quite some flamewars on other lists between MO and others (it takes at least two, BTW), we all are capable of setting up appropriate filters in our software. I have been filtering out some people who contribute no

Guitars and meantone

2005-02-27 Thread Stephan Olbertz
Dear all, is anyone aware of evidence or hints for something like 55-edo-tuning, or in other words for something like a 1/6-pythagorean-comma meantone tuning for 18th century guitars? Instructions, paintings, body frets on surviving instruments? It's supposed to be the usual tuning for non-keyb

Re: A couple of questions

2005-02-07 Thread Stephan Olbertz
Concerning Mus.ms 40032 Antonio wrote: > <><>< Dear Kenneth, To my knowledge, there is no listing yet available. I have compiled an index from my own copy of the MS, but I would not consider it as definitive until I have compared it with what Griffiths and Fabris come up with in their own edition.

Re: Two questions?

2005-02-07 Thread Stephan Olbertz
Sal Savaggio wrote: > <><>< Hello all, 1.I was wondering if anyone has any Santiago de Murcia in Fronimo format they would be willing to share? 2. How about the double 6 string guitar that was used near the end of the 18th century? I hear there is some lovely solo and chamber music floating aroun