"Jon Murphy" <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > The mandocello is larger mandolin. The sequence in size is mandolin, > mandora, mandocello, mandobass.
mandolino, mandola, mandolone, rather. mandoloncello would then be a small mandolone. mandora is something else. > My new charango (which Bill tells me that you accepted as an instrument when > you decided it was basically a vihuela de mano) will make a fine alto > mandora (tuned to d" rather than g") when I get the right strings on it > (I've approximated them from my spare stock and it works, now ordering > better guages). But I can't call it a mandora as it has a "waist" like the > vihuela/guitar family, but also the deep rounded body of the lute and > mandolin. May I add that your obvious notion of what a mandora should be does not congrue with what it was in 18th century, namely 6c mandora (tuning: F-G-c-f-a-d', also G-A-d-g-b-e', with its 6th course retuning as required), aka calichone (bass tuning: C-D-G-c-e-a). Cf. Pietro Prosser's articles on this. -- Best, Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
