All this mandora/gallichon talk has me a little worked up. There is a
marvelous matched ca. 1790 mandolino/mandola pair by Presbler in storage at
the Met. Their decor is almost identical and they appear to have been
built as a set. The mandolino is in six courses and I would assume
intended
All this mandora/gallichon talk has me a little worked up. There is a
marvelous matched ca. 1790 mandolino/mandola pair by Presbler in storage
at
the Met. Their decor is almost identical and they appear to have been
built as a set. The mandolino is in six courses and I would assume
Indeed, but bear in mind that string tensions may have been very significantly
higher than the lute (the M/G was known to be more penetrating and hence its
preference in larger scale, esp sacred, works).
MH
Eric Liefeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks very much for that Martyn,
It probably
Hi,
It may be useful for some people to see some of what is being discussed
here, so I put a couple of pictures from the Brescianello MS:
Tuning: http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/wlkfiles/Brescianello_allegro.jpg
First piece, with the beginning almost undecypherable:
A correction to my previous message: the tunings are at
http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/wlkfiles/Brescianello_tuning.jpg
Alain
Alain Veylit wrote:
Hi,
It may be useful for some people to see some of what is being discussed
here, so I put a couple of pictures from the Brescianello MS:
Tuning:
Thanks very much for that Martyn,
It probably goes without saying, but of course this material is quite
playable by
lute players too. Simply remove (or ignore) the top course on a
G-lute... and
poof!... a functional mandora/gallichon in D.
Best,
Eric
Martyn Hodgson wrote:
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