Hi Brad,
You are right - there are many, many references to a mandora as mandore and
vice versa. It has been and continues to be an area of much confusion. I
personally started differentiating them (small mandore, large mandora) after
reading Donald Gill's plea to do so in the Lute Society
And may also account for Wagner's 'lute' in Die Meistersinger. The opening
notes are a rising arpeggio of EADGBE - a mandora in E?
Rob
On 27/03/2008, Frank Nordberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Martyn Hodgson wrote:
The 18thC Mandora (aka Gallichon - various cognates) was also tuned
in
I still think that an 18th C Mandola would be the ticket. I don't know if
anyone makes them, but there are a lot of roundback short scale Italian made
Mandocellos that are pretty close. The french piper Jean Pierre Rasle living
in the UK used to have one in his ceilidh group, the Cock Bull
I'm not sure which instrument you're talking about Brad. Do you have
pix or links?
I know JPR but I don't know which disk you're referring to. The
history of the bagpipe one?
On Mar 25, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Brad McEwen wrote:
I still think that an 18th C Mandola would be the ticket. I
Frank Nordberg wrote:
..
I'm sure I've seen them with more
regular lute propotions though - just can't remember where and when.
..
I really have to learn to think before writing!
This instrument is of course the gallichon (aka mandore), perhaps *the*
most obvious portable continuo
Brad McEwen wrote:
I still think that an 18th C Mandola would be the ticket. I don't
know if anyone makes them, but there are a lot of roundback short
scale Italian made Mandocellos that are pretty close.
There wasn't any mandocello as we know it back in the mid 18th century.
The mandolin
I think the tuning for the Mandora was a tone lower than modern
guitar, plus pitch may have been lower as well - from one to 3
semitones.
You're absolutely right about information being ignored - that's
always upset me.
On Mar 25, 2008, at 9:10 PM, Frank Nordberg wrote:
Brad McEwen
Doc:
Is it meant to be historically accurate? If not, what about a Mandobass or
Mandocello?
Brad
Doc Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm working on a project involving mid-18th-century dance music mostly
from France, Belgium and Austria. I'd like to have a non-keyboard
plucked
Hey Brad -
Yes, it should be from the period.
On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Brad McEwen wrote:
Doc:
Is it meant to be historically accurate? If not, what about a
Mandobass or Mandocello?
Brad
Doc Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm working on a project involving mid-18th-century dance
Frank:
Intersting. thesmaller instrument next to it looks like a Guittarr
Allemande, but it appears to have a fixed bridge and a more modern stylke
headstock. Same basic body shape,though.
Brad
Frank Nordberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doc Rossi wrote:
I'm working on a project
Yes, that would be perfect, but did it survive into the 18th century?
Could you point me to some evidence?
On Mar 25, 2008, at 1:48 AM, James A Stimson wrote:
Dear Doc:
How about a bandora? Aren't there some accounts of the Germans
playing it
with a plectrum for baroque continuo?
Cheers,
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