[LUTE] Re: meantone fret position measurements

2009-02-09 Thread David Tayler
David's is the only one I have measured that works, but perhaps some of the other ones work. dt At 11:58 AM 2/8/2009, you wrote: Charles Browne wrote: There is a fret placement spreadsheet on the LSA website that will provide you with all the information without re-calculation. It will give

[LUTE] Re: meantone fret position measurements

2009-02-08 Thread Stuart Walsh
David van Ooijen wrote: On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com wrote: Did someone once put up a calculator which which worked out fret positions, in meantone, for a given string length? Stuart It's not exactly a calculator, but it has a table with numbers

[LUTE] Re: meantone fret position measurements

2009-02-08 Thread Charles Browne
Stuart Walsh wrote: David van Ooijen wrote: On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com wrote: Did someone once put up a calculator which which worked out fret positions, in meantone, for a given string length? Stuart It's not exactly a calculator, but it has

[LUTE] Re: meantone fret position measurements

2009-02-08 Thread Stuart Walsh
Charles Browne wrote: There is a fret placement spreadsheet on the LSA website that will provide you with all the information without re-calculation. It will give fret positions for a number of temperaments/and string lengths it is worth looking at! Charles Thanks. Found it and punched in the

[LUTE] Re: meantone fret position measurements

2009-02-08 Thread Sean Smith
Stuart, Try the 1/4 comma to start; the thinking being to overdo the change so you can more easily define its differences. You can always scale back to 1/6 and compare. If you go the 1/4 comma route you may want to play your lower F#s on the 6th G fret till you get a tastino, at least for

[LUTE] Re: meantone fret position measurements

2009-02-08 Thread David Rastall
On the subject of fret placement, what about fret placement on the Baroque lute? Davidr dlu...@verizon.net -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: meantone fret position measurements

2009-02-08 Thread Roman Turovsky
Yes, especially for that Falkenhagen Prelude. RT From: David Rastall dlu...@verizon.net On the subject of fret placement, what about fret placement on the Baroque lute? Davidr dlu...@verizon.net -- To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: meantone fret position measurements

2009-02-08 Thread Charles Browne
Stuart Walsh wrote: Charles Browne wrote: There is a fret placement spreadsheet on the LSA website that will provide you with all the information without re-calculation. It will give fret positions for a number of temperaments/and string lengths it is worth looking at! Charles Thanks. Found

[LUTE] Re: meantone fret position measurements

2009-02-08 Thread David van Ooijen
Stuart Walsh wrote: multiplying by 43. But - so much choice. Any advice on a temperament for second half of fifteenth century? For earlier music, Ars Nova and Trecento, I use Pythagorean temperament. It was a surpsrise to me how much Italian early 16th century music I still could play with

[LUTE] Re: meantone fret position measurements

2009-02-07 Thread David van Ooijen
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com wrote: Did someone once put up a calculator which which worked out fret positions, in meantone, for a given string length? Stuart It's not exactly a calculator, but it has a table with numbers to multiply string length with.

[LUTE] Re: meantone fret position measurements

2009-02-07 Thread David Tayler
I can vouch that David's system works perfectly and as I result I owe him a beer for life. dt At 02:53 PM 2/7/2009, you wrote: On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com wrote: Did someone once put up a calculator which which worked out fret positions, in meantone,

[LUTE] Re: meantone fret position measurements

2009-02-07 Thread David van Ooijen
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:35 AM, David Tayler vidan...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I can vouch that David's system works perfectly and as I result I owe him a beer for life. I'll take you up on that one! David - just wondering: won't that give a headache for life? ***