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Yes, we know what you mean, even though people that are used to music from the Orient might not hear music from the Occident the same way as we Westeners do
by xkcd1963 2y ago
Yes, we know what you mean, even though people that are used to music from the Orient might not hear music from the Occident the same way as we Westeners do
- analog31 2y agoLikewise, our own "western" sense of tuning has changed over the centuries. I attended a baroque music performance, and the viola da gamba player had double frets on some notes. I asked him what's up with that, and he played some chords in different keys. It had to do with the instruments being tuned in non-equal temperament.
- tzs 2y agoLutes and other fretted instruments in western music back in the renaissance used tied on frets. Each fret was a piece of string tied in a loop around the neck. This meant it was relatively easy to change the position of frets if you wanted to try different temperaments. They could also take small pieces of string and glue them on, so at some places on some strings have an extra option, so that say fretting at the tied on fret would give say Db but fretting on the little glued on fret next to that would give C#. That sounds like what that viola da gamba player might have had. Here are a couple of videos where Brandon Acker (guitarist/lutist/etc) and Marshall Brune (luthier) played around with doing this on a modern Spanish style classical guitar. In the first video [1] they take a guitar Brune was building but had not yet had frets put on and tied gut frets on it. In the second [2] Acker explores moving the frets to better tune the guitar for specific pieces, and then explores adding those extra small frets to some notes. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--y_vf-Kg-w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--y_vf-Kg-w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiKCORN-6m8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiKCORN-6m8
- analog31 2y agoThat's really cool. My son plays viola da gamba, in addition to cello, and has had to learn how to tie frets.