source file: mills3.txt Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 14:45:20 +0100 Subject: re:Chestnut help From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) > Without knowing how to accurately measure the width of a third, it would >be very difficult to tune a 12TET on a strung keyboard instrument. That's not surprising, and you of course know more about the topic than I do. But considering that what brought up the topic was playing in tune with lutes, wouldn't a lute provide a very effective equal-temperament tuning reference? Since clavichords and harpsichords require such frequent retuning, wouldn't it make sense to, in the scenario of playing with a lute, tune to that lute for that session? Then again, best I can remember, keyboards playing with fretted strings was, and still is, a comparatively unusual scenario (in the classical-music tradition that is - it is of course fairly common in modern-day popular music). SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Brian Belet Subject: Re: Steel Guitar Tuning PostedDate: 10-12-97 17:58:16 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 10-12-97 17:56:23-10-12-97 17:56:23,10-12-97 17:56:08-10-12-97 17:56:09 DeliveredDate: 10-12-97 17:56:09 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C1256569.005D0A9D; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 17:58:11 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA11824; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 17:58:16 +0100 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 17:58:16 +0100 Message-Id: <9712101658.AA11824@ns.ezh.nl> Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA11826 Received: (qmail 1690 invoked from network); 10 Dec 1997 08:58:12 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Dec 1997 08:58:12 -0800 Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu