Just in case my reply got lost: Look at LuteBot #5 at http://www.marincola.com/ containing an abbreviated version of Pietro Prosser's thesis on the calichon / mandora. It's all sufficiently explained there.
Mathias "Arthur Ness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > That's # GM:3885 in Goteborg that you link to. > http://carlotta.gotlib.goteborg.se/zoom/534/GM_3885_bild1.jpg > Here's some closeups: > http://tinyurl.com/5pn4uj > > Here's another similar instrument, # GM:3889 > http://tinyurl.com/5dn6bg > > They seem to have an abundant supply in Sweden. # GM:3889 is the > instrument pictured in Ruggiero Chiesa's edition of the "gallichone" > partitas by Brescianello, called colascione by Chiesa. He is among the > many who have confused the colascione with > the galichon. The museum calls both instruments mandoras. > > I have often wondered if # GM:3889 is a fake made up out of discarded > parts > from several instruments. Was it a stage prop for commedia dell'arte? The > rosette looks to be painted on (in Chiesa's photos), like some other > decorations. The > fingerboard seems too narrow for all those strings (I count 11 pegs) tied > to > that bridge. The neck looks like one of my great-grandmother's bed > posts.<g> > =====AJN (Boston, Mass.)===== > Free Download of the Week > from the Classical Music Library > Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 > To download, click on the CML link here > http://mysite.verizon.net/arthurjness/ > > My Web Page: Scores > http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepq31c/arthurjnesslutescores/ > Other Matters: > http://mysite.verizon.net/arthurjness/ > =================================== > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lutelist" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 9:16 AM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: what the heck is this instrument? > > > | Too many courses. > | RT > | > | > Hello !! > | > it looks like a colascione .... > | > xx H.V > | > > | > > | > --- On Sun, 7/27/08, Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > > | >> From: Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | >> Subject: [LUTE] what the heck is this instrument? > | >> To: "Lutelist" <[email protected]> > | >> Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 12:36 PM > | >> http://carlotta.gotlib.goteborg.se/zoom/534/GM_3885_bild1.jpg > | >> > | >> RT To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
