Muchissimas gracias.
RT
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Roman M. Turovsky
http://polyhymnion.org/swv
> From: "Alexander Batov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:18:14 +0100
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: vihuela
>
> Dear Roman,
>
> It does seem that this quotation is taken from the book by J.L.Romanillos
> and M.H.Winspear "The Vihuela de Mano and the Spanish Guitar", The Sanguino
> Press, Guijosa 2002, p.95
>
> From my own understanding of things "big�ela de bordones" in this context
> could mean a six - seven course (6x2, 7x2) "guitar-like" instrument with the
> two or three lower pitched courses strung either in unisons or in octaves.
>
> A rather later source "Arte de tocar la guitarra espanola ..." by D.
> Fernando Ferandiere, Madrid 1799 recommends to put a bourdon and an octave
> on the E-string, two bourdons on the A-string and two bourdons on the
> D-string.
>
> Why "guitar-like"? Because, however unlikely, they could be of a different
> shape than that of the guitar, not to mention, with the fluted type of the
> back like on the vihuela E.0748 'Chambure' (I'm only joking!). The Appendix
> 23 ("Deed of capital assets that Maros Antonio Gonzalez took into his
> marriage with Dona Phelipa Gonzaliz" of 1766) on p.511 of the above
> mentioned book lists "Two pear-shaped vihuelas at forty reales each, ..."
> (Dos biguelas de perilla cada una en quarenta reales ...)
>
> I suppose one of the surviving pear-shaped 6-string guitars made by Jose
> Pernas, Granada, 1854 (illustrated in "The Spanish Guitar", The Metropolitan
> museum of art, 1992, p.149) may well have been modelled on one of those
> still existing big�elas.
>
> From the information that is currently available, it follows that in the
> later years of the 17th century the names vihuela and guitar could have been
> used interchangeably. So, what we really don't know is how those "big�elas
> de bordones" were tuned - as vihuelas or as guitars. Most probably, as
> guitars ... Maybe somebody knows. I don't.
>
> Regards,
> Alexander Batov
> www.vihuelademano.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "LUTE-LIST" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 5:07 PM
> Subject: vihuela
>
>
>> What could this mean?
>> "Dalp Miranda, Theodosio. (b.c.1665) Theodosio Dalp Miranda was born in
>> Valencia. He was about twenty-three years old, of medium height, thickset
>> and with limp dark brown hair. He had been working as an apprentice and a
>> journeyman in Madrid and the provinces making musical instruments (de edad
>> de veinte y tres a�os poco mas o menos que es un hombre de mediana
> estatura
>> y de cuerpo reicho pelo casta�o oscuro laso y nos hizo relazion diziendo
> que
>> abia ejerzido en esta corte y en otros ciudades el arte de violero de
> muchos
>> a�os). He was examined for his mastership in 1688 by Marcos Jim�nez,
>> Francisco de Campos and Pedro de Aguilar on a vihuela with bourdons, a
>> double-course harp and a viol (big�ela de bordones, un arpa de dos ordenes
> y
>> una big�ela de arco). "
>> RT
>>
>>
>>
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