Dear Davide,
So, you don't know of any surviving instrument of 4 double courses?
There is this instrument by Marafi (MIR 873) which has 8 pegs but seem to
have arranged like this:
1x1
3x2
1x1
Whether this is the original arrangement or not...?
Kind regards,
Susanne
----- Original Message -----
From: "davide.rebuffa" <[email protected]>
To: "Lute List" <[email protected]>; "Stuart Walsh"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 7:37 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins - single/double courses experiment
Sauli wrote for a 4 course mandolino with scordatura ( fouth course tuned
a semitone higher, just like the first four courses of a lute)
Surviving original 4 course mandolini have a single top string and all the
others double.
Davide
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Walsh" <[email protected]>
To: "Lute List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 4:41 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins - single/double courses experiment
I sent this a while ago
Here's a little example of single-stringing. It's an Alemande and
Corrente by Filippo Sauli. Of course, the Sauli pieces are definitely
for mandolino and mandolinos have double courses....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oReJcAQIU04
And here is another little piece by Sauli on the same instrument, now
with double courses (except for the top string).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSxLtfVX5xY
Stuart
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