Stuart Walsh wrote: > I was looking for a reference to J.W. Bunsold. > > It's 'Evangelische Choralbuch' (1765-1770) by J.W. Bunsold. The music is > for a 13-course arch-cittern as mentioned (i.e.: gceg on the top four > pairs, then descending in single strings: F, E, D, C, B, (Bb), G, A,F, > C.) The music is in Italian tablature. > > Maybe the luthier is making a copy of an arch-cittern to play the > Bunsold chorales? I wonder if anyone has seen this music or knows where > it is? It would be fascinating to hear this music played on this rather > strange-looking (and quite small) instrument. > > Again it seems like cittern playing and making was very different from > what was happening in Britain and France. > > 'Bunsold cittern' - without the quotes, gets a googlewhack. And a good > one. I haven't come across this catalogue of instruments in the > Richard-Wagner-Museum before. The citterns start on p204 with a Kram > instrument (and the Bunsold reference) and there are some very > interesting German citterns from the 18th and 19th centuries. And lots > of other interesting instruments too. >
And this time, here's the URL (!): http://www.richard-wagner-museum.ch/de/instrumente/streich_zupfinstrumente.pdf > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
