Dear Edward, The problem with employing an unequal temperament on the five course guitar is the prevalence of sliding chord shapes employed on every fret in much of the extant repertoire - ie Alfabeto. This has also been pointed out in previous communications and papers. M.H.
On Sunday, 12 May 2019, 09:05:59 BST, Edward Yong <edward.y...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi everyone! I'm thinking about exploring meantone on my renaissance and baroque guitars. At the moment they are in equal temperament, but I usually have my renaissance lute in 1/4 comma meantone and my baroque archlute in 1/6 comma (unless I'm doing earlier music). I was wondering about meantone on the two guitars, but was wondering whether there was any historical evidence for the use of meantone on renaissance and baroque guitars. Also evidence for tastini on them would be helpful! I have that helpful calculator for frets in various temperaments, but can't find anything for early guitars. Should I simply place them by ear or use ClearTune for placing frets in the appropriate temperaments? Best, Edward C. Yong ======== ÃÿÃÃÿ ÷ûõúÃÃÿýùúÃý ÃñÃÃôÃÿüõïÿý õú õïà ñôÿùÿ õüõà õÃÃüÃø÷. Hæ litteræ electronicæ ab iPadis missæ sunt. æ¤é»åéµä»¶ç¼éäºèªå¾iPadã This e-mail was sent from my iPad. To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
