"Stewart McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > One of the arguments in favour > of using the mandora is that they bought a couple for the church at Leipzig > when Bach was there. There were over 40 tunings for the mandora, and the > number of strings can vary. I think I am right in saying that Lynda Sayce > uses a mandora for this piece. > > I once counted the occurrences of the bass notes in Betrachte Meine Seele: C > = 4; D = 14; Eb = 49; E = 8; F = 12; F# = 2; G = 20; Ab = 4; A = 8; Bb = 20. > From that it is clear that one of the bass courses must be tuned to Eb. > Ideally there would be an open G and an open Bb too.
Can't find it in the record, so--was a calichon suggested? With its deep tuning C - D - G - B - e - a all the bass notes should be easily reachable on the fretboard. -- Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
