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[VIHUELA] Re: Chi passa Boogie

wikla
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:55:54 -0700

Dear Eugene and the Lists,

On 4/11/2008, "Eugene C. Braig IV"  wrote:
> At 05:25 AM 4/11/2008, Arto Wikla wrote:
> >The "mandora" here means the tiny soprano lute, perhaps it should be
> >called mandolino?
> 
> Depends, but in this case, it definitely looks like the paradigm that is
> commonly accepted as "mandolino" nowadays.  How does he tune it?  6-course
> mandolino/mandola tuning is g-b-e'-a'-d''-g''.

Well, it was 12 years ago and the instrumen is not mine, neither
Stefanos', but I think you could be right with the tuning. Anyhow I
know I was playing in C major, so perhaps you can check Stefanos'
fingerings in the video clip...  ;-)

Arto



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