> References to mandola/mandolino arose right around 1600 in Italy. It > typically had a sickle-shaped pegbox terminating in a partial scroll and > finial, courses of paired strings in unison, and initially was tuned > entirely in fourths e'-a'-d"-g" (low b and g courses were added > subsequently). It persisted into the 1790s and its single-strung > descendants made it all the way into the 20th c. in northern Italy. This > is the instrument for which Vivaldi wrote. I suspect that various sized > members of this family were the instruments that Monica asserts Tyler & > Sparks confused with proper guitars in Italian sources. Am I correct? Unless she referred to Renato Meucci's paper. Did she? RT ______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv
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