> > Now in Collins Barracks - if my memory serves me correctly, there are 14 > guittars. I have a list of their names/makers somewhere... > > Oswald wrote for two pitches of instrument, one in C and one in G. I always > thought these larger guittars were for G. But who knows for sure... > > Rob >
Is there extant music by Oswald for a guittar in G? The only music I ever came across for a guittar in G was some extremely basic stuff that could as well have been played on a guittar in C. I have a note that Marella - writing for a guittar in A - lived in Dublin for a time. (This reference is from Eitner and I have completely forgotten who he is!). One of Marella's books is from 1757, quite early. There seems to have been guittar activity in Edinburgh, Dublin and London (and other places in England). It looks like there are three basic guittar tunings - in C, G and A. C - (mostly) in Britain, a bit in France, in Portugal and other parts of Europe. A - (mostly) in France and Flanders and (possibly, probably) Scandinavia. And the more elusive G that amazingly took off in Russia. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
