Doc Rossi wrote:
Yes, that would be perfect, but did it survive into the 18th century?
Could you point me to some evidence?
Doc, I think I already gave you this link but just in case:
http://www.studia-instrumentorum.de/MUSEUM/zist_pandora.htm
There are several references to the panodora (it was usually written
with a p rather than b in German) during the 18th century there.
Especially intersting in here is perhaps this paragraph:
"Am Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts befand sich die Pandora unter den
Continuoinstrumenten des Hamburger Opernorchesters (Kleefeld 1899/1900,
S. 233ff.), und noch in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts gehörten
zur fürstlichen Hofkapelle in Weißenfels zwei "Kammer-Pandoristen":
Pantaleon Hebestreit und Joseph Doberozinsky (Werner 1911, S. 68 und 71)."
Rough translation:
At the end of the 17th Century there was a Pandora among the continuo
instruments of the Hamburg Opera Orchestra (1899/1900 Kleefeld, p.
233ff.), and as late as the first half of the 18th Century the Court
Orchestra at Weißenfels had two "Chamber Pandorists:" Pantaleon
Hebestreit and Joseph Doberozinsky (Werner 1911, p. 68 and 71).
One page I overlooked at Michel's site was this:
http://www.studia-instrumentorum.de/MUSEUM/zist_pandor_quellen.htm
It's a chronological list of bandora references in Germany. Lots of 18th
C. references there - there's even a quote from Mattheson.
And there's a 1737 continuo tutorial (David Kellner) that specifically
lists bandora as one of the continuo instruments.
One of the references is to an actual bandora from c. 1750:
http://www.studia-instrumentorum.de/MUSEUM/ZISTER/freiberg_0171.htm
(Digression: note that this has a floating bridge and a 460 mm scale.
Does that remind anybody of any other 18th century instruments?)
Frank Nordberg
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