Mike Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Can anyone think of other similar comparable retunings during >a movement in the Romantic (or Classical) chamber literature? Apparently the term is scordatura. I don't know about chamber literature, but in the symphonic literature there's Saint Saens' Danse Macabre which requires the concertmaster to tune his E-string down a half-step so it makes a dissonant tritone with the A-string, and I understand that Mahler's 4th symphony also requires unusual tuning by the concertmaster in the second movement. Searching wikipedia will give you a larger list of examples. hector aguilar