Stuart, There appears to be no contemporaneous evidence of precisely how Diesel strung his guitar. From consideration of the music, voice leading, period of composition etc, I believe Diesel used a mandora like stringing - ie octaves on the fourth and fifths but with the low bass on the thumb side (ie not as earlier forms of 5 course guitar where the lowest string of the fourth (and sometimes fifth) course is the upper octave.). Some further justification for this arrangement of basses is given by a slightly earlier MS CZ -Brn MsD189 (c. 1730) which gives the tuning for the Callezono (gallichon aka mandora) and contains music for viola da gamba (I think) in staff notation and later (f.48) a page headed 'Fundamenta Chytarra' and on its reverse a tuning table headed ' Accordo Chytarra et Mandora'. Much of the music is for 5 course with just the occasional sixth course tuned just a tone lower than the fifth (ie as also used by Scheidler for his guitar sonatas at the end of the century and for much mandora music) regards Martyn __________________________________________________________________
From: WALSH STUART <s.wa...@ntlworld.com> To: Eduard Agullo <eduagu...@hotmail.com>; Vihuela List <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Thursday, 13 October 2016, 11:46 Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Diesel > The Royal Library of Copenhagen has made available finally this little > known repertoire: > > [1][1]http://www.kb.dk/da/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/gks377.h tml > > [2]En Samling Tabulaturer for Guitar, mest af Nathanael ... > www.kb.dk > En Samling Tabulaturer for Guitar, mest af Nathanael Diesel (GKS 377 > folio) > > Let us hope that Diesel will be more appreciated and performed now ! > > Eduard V. Agullà ³ Lots of music! (But not guitar music in 5 and 6). What is the most likely stringing arrangement for this guitar music? Low A? Stuart > > -- > > References > > 1. [2]http://www.kb.dk/da/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/gks377.html > 2. [3]http://www.kb.dk/da/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/gks377.html > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. [5]https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- References 1. http://www.kb.dk/da/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/gks377.html 2. http://www.kb.dk/da/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/gks377.html 3. http://www.kb.dk/da/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/gks377.html 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 5. https://www.avast.com/antivirus