This is really nice. You are doing a great job as a new bandora player
and I love the graphics. I think these pieces were meant to be
beginner pieces for someone exactly like you - a lute player who is
trying to get used to a bandora. There are lute versions of these
pieces (not quite identical, but very similar). It's a lot more fun to
play these pieces than to practice on the bandora part of a consort
lesson without the other parts.
I also find it odd to play those bouncy melodies rumbling around in the
bass. That is one of the reasons to argue for a "tenor sized "
instrument in bandora tuning. There are a number of other pieces in
Dd.2.11 that would sound better at a higher pitch - fast running notes
on the 3rd course or lower that start to sound like mud, etc. There
are also some pieces that sound really nice at the lower pitch - the
Holborne Lullaby is one example.
Nancy
Some pieces played on the Lute Society's bandora which I have on
hire for a bit longer. It's a nice instrument; it has a smokey sound
and
feels satisfying to play. I still haven't mastered tuning. I reckon
that with an instrument like this - with wire strings, peg tuners,
non-equal temperament, fixed frets, fan frets - that tuning is going
to be a bit of a compromise. And I'm not sure where the best
compromises are.
[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcuAM4f8FoA
These pieces are from Cambridge MSS, transcribed by Donald Gill (and
thanks to Peter Forrester):
Grimstock - Bony sweet Boy - A Toy.
It must have been a bit odd then, just as now, to play little
ditties like this on a bass instrument?
Stuart
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