Chris,
your work commands my respect, seriously. I would never figure to do
that myself. My eletronic device isn't as fine as to show exact single
cents. What's more, I wouldn't dare to position frets so that all the
notes accurately fit. BTW, no need to call me Herr on an
English-speaking list.
Herr Roesel,
I used the most historically accurate method: an electronic tuner. ;-)
Once got the open strings, I fidgeted frets around by ear depending on the key
and context (which is actually the historical precedent). If needed, I would
sometimes re-finger passages to include different f
Thanks to everyone!
To me lowering a little the open string a's and lowering a little the 4th
fret really made it! Now the instrument sounds like a lute!
All best,
Arto
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Could say how to do that?
Mathias
schrieb:
> I've found that Kirnberger III works pretty well. I used it for a while
> although I'm back to ET nowadays.
>
> Chris
>
> --- On Fri, 12/11/09, Edward Martin wrote:
>
> > From: Edward Martin
> > Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: D-minor tuning and ET
I wonder how to do that. In French flat, the basic chords are
ch. C mj A mn
g' -a|r--
e' -a|a--
c' -a|a--
a-d|a--
e-d|a--
B-b|b--
bass 5 a
-
ch. G mj F mj
g' -a|r--
e' -d|-
Whilst agreeing that much of the 18thC Dm repertoire requires equal
temperament (or near), there's a case for some form of meantone for the
earlier French repertoire which asks for fewer modulations and
generally uses less extreme keys. The ubiquitous use of unisons (eg
open first
Sometimes I also lowered the 4th course a little bit, what works pretty
well and sounds very good in F maj, d min etc.
Unfortunately we don't have any historical evidence about tuning
temperaments, as far as I know.
But I'm pretty sure that the lutenists then tuned the lute in a tempered
way.
