Dear Rainer,
What a very good initiative! I think there's lots of information out
there in various places and people's heads and it would be very good
to have such a place to pull a lot of it together.
To start with there are 18 images from the Lute Society database
https://lute-images.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issues/LI?q=type-of-lute:%20mandora
But I believe I probably have more, and I have a lot of images of
surviving instruments which I've also been collecting, so contact me
off list if you'd like any of these.
Best wishes and good luck,
David
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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