Sounds a lot like the Ukrainian national instrument, the name of which escapes me at the moment.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Subject: [CITTERN] 12-c Saxon cittern >> >> A builder in Germany has just contacted me about a commission they >> have received to build a 12-course cittern based on an existing >> instrument. There are four courses on the fingerboard; the rest are >> free. He is looking for more information on tuning. He's found two >> possibilities: [high to low] e' d' g b e a d g c f Bb es [I assume es >> = Eb] and g' e' c' g f e d c B A G F C [13 courses, but who's counting]. >> >> As you can see, the former uses the Italian 4-course tuning on the >> finger board with circle of fifths tuning on the free basses; the >> latter uses an open chord with diatonic basses, similar to tunings >> used in 18th-century France, Germany, etc. Apparently both were still >> found in 20th-century Saxony. >> >> Does anyone have any thoughts I could pass on? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Doc >> > Sounds like one of those German arch-citterns of the mid-late 18th century > (but there seem to have been some earlier ones too) - made by Klemm and Kramm. > > I'm at work at the moment but I'm sure they were tuned to GCEG and then > descending diatonically. > > I've got some notes somewhere on these instruments and for some inexplicable > reason they might sometimes have been called 'mandorinas' and I think I've > got some music (in tablature, not ordinary music notation like in Britain and > France etc) for them. > > > > ----------------------------------------- > 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 >
