Dear Lute-List,
I'm going to set up a website about the 18th century mandora/gallichon.
This might be a place for general information about the instrument(s),
its history, where it has been played, composers, and, and, and.....but
also information about where to find a player, a lutemaker, and last but
not least a download page for lots of pieces.
Those who already know a bit about 18th century mandora music: don't be
afraid! I'm not going to present hundreds of bad and boaring menuets
there. Amongst all the manuscripts which I have (quite a lot, in copy of
course) I've found many interesting pieces, technically not to much
demanding, often with nice melodies, and sometimes music of high quality
in baroque or gallant style.
During the last years I've made a collection of my favorite pieces and
suites, and I made readable copies of it with Fronimo. Probably other
mandora players did the same. So why not putting together the whole
mandora wisdom and repertoire and collect it in the web, downloadable
for free and open to all.
That's quite a lot of work of which I've already done a bit. Therefore I
would like to ask the mandora players of amongst us (I know there are
some....) to participate to this idea, and to contribute whatever might
be of interest.
You can have a look to this very basic website with just an index-page,
a completely empty "about Mandora"-page and the impressum (which is
obligatory in Germany).
The web adress is: www.gallichon.de
But some buttons are already there, and so at least you can see which
themes I have integrated until now. But that's just work in progress,
and to be filled with real information soon. If you have any suggestion
about what else should be there, if you have any material to share,
don't hesitate to contact me. The website shall be in english and
german. As you certainly have seen I'm not a native speaker. Any help in
transforming my poor english into something closer to good english is
welcome.
Let's try it.
Rainer
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