On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:09 PM, David Love wrote: > FWIW fretted instruments are not actually equally tempered > instruments and require subtle manipulations of the tuning depending > on which key you are playing in. I'm not sure I understand what you mean in your first sentence. Are you talking about intention (design), or just the problems due to the fact that design is never perfectly followed? As in woodwind instruments, where the holes are never perfectly placed, and one always has to compensate. Or issues of the various strings, all being the same lengths but different thicknesses, having different tensions, hence different responses to pressure at the frets? Instruments with movable frets - essentially viola da gamba -move their frets and often slant them, depending on the temperament being used. And they still have to compensate in order to match pitch. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091130/f9d6b238/attachment-0001.htm>
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC