Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread bill
On Martedì, giu 8, 2004, at 07:10 Europe/Rome, Jon Murphy wrote: What is re-entrant tuning. reentrant tuning is when the strings you would normally expect to be lower are actually higher in pitch - nearer to the 1st string than the last. in other words the strings don't run in a progressive

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread Alain Veylit
On Martedì, giu 8, 2004, at 07:10 Europe/Rome, Jon Murphy wrote: What is re-entrant tuning. --I thought re-entrant tuning was when you stop the other guys from playing so you get a second chance to tune. --In a solo setting, re-entrant tuning means to stop mid-way through a piece to adjust

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread Joachim Lüdtke
Dear Alain, that's wonderful! You saved my evening after a particular hard day. I'm going to try to tune my lute now ... Cheers, Joachim Alain Veylit [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Martedì, giu 8, 2004, at 07:10 Europe/Rome, Jon Murphy wrote: What is re-entrant tuning. --I thought

RE: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread Alain Veylit
for a nigerian single stringed lute . It sounds a bit like the Theramin! Charles -Original Message- From: Alain Veylit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 June 2004 17:43 To: bill; Jon Murphy Cc: James A Stimson; lute society Subject: Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning On Martedì, giu 8, 2004

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread lutesmith
--Tuned in fourths: when you only bother to tune every fourth string --Tuned in fifths: no one is lazy enough in the lute world to do it, but widely in use in the violin family of instruments Lutes are never tuned in seconds because it usually takes much longer than that. Sean

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread Thomas Schall
Am Die, 2004-06-08 um 22.33 schrieb lutesmith: Lutes are never tuned in seconds because it usually takes much longer than that. Wrong! Ask Stefan how (if ever) I tune my 10-course. It's *very* fast (I told him I would have bought it tuned and it would stay in tune since then. All a matter

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread Howard Posner
Alain Veylit wrote: Is a fifth really a unit of measure for whisky? And any other liquor, including wine. 750 ml is close enough to a fifth of a gallon not to worry about the difference. I don't get the Ashcroft jokes, BTW.

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread Alain Veylit
Howard, all, Serious and sincere apologies for getting the giggles on that tuning thing and for all the bad jokes - The Ashcroft references come from a WEB page I read recently detailing some comments he made regarding Classical music in general and opera in particular: Ashcroft seems to

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread Alain Veylit
Alright, ooopsie, the Cultural bureau is a hoax... I had to go all the way to the Job opportunities page to figure it out for sure... Who knows: the beautiful song in the second link might be a fake too. Have the Sauceks taken over the whole WEB? Alain At 05:48 PM 6/8/04, Alain Veylit wrote:

Re: reentrant tuning

2004-06-07 Thread Craig Robert Pierpont
Actually I meant what I said. Without belaboring the point, whether you think of the tuning of 16c 4 cs guitar tunings (g,c,e,a or a,c,e,a) as reentrant or not depends on if you think of the bourdon as the primary or secondary string. Assuming that you are using a one at all. (The practice of

Re: reentrant tuning

2004-06-07 Thread lutesmith
At 07:56 AM 6/7/04, you wrote: Actually I meant what I said. Without belaboring the point, whether you think of the tuning of 16c 4 cs guitar tunings (g,c,e,a or a,c,e,a) as reentrant or not depends on if you think of the bourdon as the primary or secondary string. Craig, Can you cite

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-07 Thread bill
. if documentation doesn't exist to support the existence of reentrant tuning or alternative tunings in the renaissance and baroque periods, then how did what eventually became a ukulele get its reentrant tuning and how did the vihuela that eventually became a charango end up with that clanger

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-07 Thread Jon Murphy
What is re-entrant tuning. In computer programming it is a form such that a subroutine can be used again and again during a system routine without distrurbing the basic program. I'll not get into the details, but it was a question when we used to program in machine language and real time. Best,