Dear Mathias, As I understand it, there is an overlap in meaning with gallicon, mandora, and similar words. I'm afraid I can't give chapter and verse for plucked instruments at Leipzig. I probably read about the Leipzig instruments on this list, so maybe someone could provide more information.
Best wishes, Stewart. ----- Original Message ----- From: ""Mathias Rösel"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lutelist" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:38 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: St. John Passion > "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
