Interesting to start this topic now, because this morning I just have a question on YT by a mandolin player, playing since five years, mostly early music, and wanting to take the lute because mandolin strings hurts his fingertips... Does some baroque mandolin use gut strings ? or were they all stringed in metal ? V.
-----Message d'origine----- De : Rob MacKillop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mercredi 3 décembre 2008 08:20 À : Lute Net Objet : [LUTE] Baroque mandolin So, Eugene...or anyone else...tell us what you can about the baroque mandolin. 1. Types of instruments - number of courses, construction features, string lengths, etc 2. Modern luthiers, historical luthiers - names to look out for and why. Price ranges... 3. Techniques 4. Tunings 5. Stringing - octaves, unisons, singles, double, triple(?) 6. Repertoire - specific and non specific (treble instrument and continuo, for example) Well, that will do for starters... ;-) Rob -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
