> Chris wrote: The retuning gig for meantone is also needed for pieces by
other composers. ...

Indeed you can do it and is common practice among players.

Unfortunately, as many scholars have observed, there is no historical
evidence that Renaissance and Baroque musicians ever performed such a
retuning, a.k.a. "wolf-shift".

Which is no great problem, because there are no less than FOUR alternatives
that ARE historically documented from about the middle of the 17th c.
onwards (they are discussed in the available literature on temperaments):

1) Play the wolves (if the "non-existent" accidental is either very short or
has a shake).
2) Use an enharmonic keyboard (as just discussed by Ibo).
3) Use an early form of French temperament, spreading the wolf fifth among
nearby fifths.

Some of the above tunings were very frequent in some countries, others were
very infrequent in other places, and since Froberger lived in Vienna and
also spent years in Rome and in Paris ... 

:-)

CDV


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