Dear Susanne,
I play two original six course instruments made by Ambrogio Maraffi recently
restored.
Maraffi was active in middle and second half of the XVIII century and he
never made the old XVIIth century's 4 course mandolini with single top
string which were not anymore in use and completely out of fashion by that
time.
Unfortunatly the instrument in Nurnberg hasn't got an original arrangement.
Best regards,
Davide
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susanne Herre" <mandolinens...@web.de>
To: "davide.rebuffa" <davide.rebu...@fastwebnet.it>; "Lute List"
<lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 8:40 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins - single/double courses experiment
Dear Davide,
So, you don't know of any surviving instrument of 4 double courses?
There is this instrument by Marafi (MIR 873) which has 8 pegs but seem to
have arranged like this:
1x1
3x2
1x1
Whether this is the original arrangement or not...?
Kind regards,
Susanne
----- Original Message -----
From: "davide.rebuffa" <davide.rebu...@fastwebnet.it>
To: "Lute List" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "Stuart Walsh"
<s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 7:37 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins - single/double courses experiment
Sauli wrote for a 4 course mandolino with scordatura ( fouth course
tuned a semitone higher, just like the first four courses of a lute)
Surviving original 4 course mandolini have a single top string and all
the others double.
Davide
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Walsh" <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
To: "Lute List" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 4:41 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins - single/double courses experiment
I sent this a while ago
Here's a little example of single-stringing. It's an Alemande and
Corrente by Filippo Sauli. Of course, the Sauli pieces are definitely
for mandolino and mandolinos have double courses....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oReJcAQIU04
And here is another little piece by Sauli on the same instrument, now
with double courses (except for the top string).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSxLtfVX5xY
Stuart
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