The book is printed to order. You order, they print. Let's see how Monica replies to Doc's query.
Doc, I know very little about the mandolin in Scotland. It was around at the end of the 19th century when it took its place in the Guitar, Mandolin and Banjo Orchestra in Dundee. Oswald's 18 Divertimenti are all single note pieces, advertised for both 'mandelin' or guittar, but only once does the lowest note extend below a D. I don't know if he was writing for a specific mandolin or was just chancing it. Anyway, he was in London at the time, and had been for at least a decade. The pieces in G, as I mentioned here before and in the paper, have correlations in the 12 Divertimenti in C, and the same fingering would work on either instrument. My impression is that his understanding of the guittar grew in a series of publications, and in this, his first guittar publication, he did not understand it all that well, and he therefore tried to sell it to mandolin players who were happy to play just single notes. But who knows for sure... Was there a mandolin whose lowest note was d? Rob To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
