Dear Davide,
Thank you for your comments!
I still think we can not be so sure about certain things because we don't
have much evidence.
- to my knowledge - there is no evidence at all that it could be played
with a quill before the late XVIIIth century.
Do you have any evidence against
Hi Susanne,
Questions make us tick, answers are usually boring, aren't they?
You're right about Piccinini.
He was a follower of the then fashionable TO technique.
Dowland, Laurencini, Howett and others seem to have used TO , although Dowland
is said to have started his career using TI..
At
I'm not sure it's quite right to say that lute and theorbo players were
the ones who 'often' played mandolin because a few may be recorded.
What's the evidence for this? What named players ('court musicians') do
you have in mind? Did not violinists play the mandolin, especially the
About lute players/theorbo players at courts: I think of
Agniolo Conti, Florence
Lelio Colista
Niccolò Ceccherini
Pietro Paolo Cappelini
Filippo Sauli and Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, Vienna
Johann Sigismund Weiss
But there where others who played other plucked instruments like guitar,
harp
Many thanks for this. It as an interesting and largely unexplored area
which I think we both feel needs much more good research.
Regarding the names you list, I don't see that this actually makes the
necessary link between professional theorbo/lute players and those also
Lieber Anton,
thank you so much for your duets and other tablatures!
Herzliche Grüße
Karl
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I think for most musical instruments playing techniques have evolved in
directions away from rigidness and constrictions.Casals comes to mind in
the way he moved towards more freedom of arm movement in cello playing. No
doubt placing the little finger close to the bridge and firmly keeping
I agree with Davide. I'm just aware of no baroque-era iconography that
implies plectra/quills on 4th-tuned, gut strung mandolins. If it were
common in the pit for obligati parts, I would think plectrum use would
be at least occasionally evident in the sketchy iconography.
I also
