On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:54 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@woh.rr.com> wrote:

On 09/30/2015 04:53 AM, Neil C Smith wrote:

Sorry, but always amuses me the idea that listening to any recording reflects how things sounded in their time.

Yes, funny.

I pretty much agree with this POV. I'm reminded of Luis Milan's advice re: tuning to the novice on the vihuela, it was something like "Tune the highest string as high as it will go", a rather practical commentary on intonation from the 16th century.

Best,

dp

If more people actually learned to play their instruments ... we might have need for fewer discussions like this?

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