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- From: Godfrey de Shipbrook <jlee@smylex.UUCP>
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Lute tunings
- Message-ID: <446-JNEWS-2.1@smylex.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 17:39:39 EST
- References: <19921118150111UCCXDEM@MVS.UCC.OKSTATE.EDU> <880840m.53.722185337@ace.acadiau.ca> <mjc.722276420@NL.CS.CMU.EDU>
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- Greetings from Godfrey!
-
- Ellisif writes:
- >
- > Robinson (_School of Musick_, 1603, English) says to tune a lute by tuning
- > the top string as high as it will go and then gives relative pitches from
- > there.
-
- I tried that once; I tuned the top string as high as I dared. It snapped
- when I plucked it.
-
- I tune it to G now -- which gives me the added benefit that, for the first
- few minutes after it's tuned, my lute can actually play in tune with
- another instrument... :-)
-
- (Of course, as someone hath said, if a lute is in the room with another
- instrument, the lute cannot be heard -- even if the other instrument is
- silent.)
-
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