Hey, I helped build that instrument....good to hear it! --Sterling From: Stuart Walsh <[email protected]> To: Lute Net <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 2, 2011 5:16 PM Subject: [LUTE] mandora/gallichon music (and something modern) I have loaned the UK Lute Society's mandora (or gallichon,caldechon etc. These other names are much more interesting!). It has a strange sound, quite different from a typical G Renaissance lute or a D minor Baroque lute. Here are a couple of pieces from the Recueil de pieces (18th century) published today by Editions Culture et Civilisation, Bruxelles1979. These pieces are really quite straightforward (until you press the little red 'record' button when ten more wholly uncontrollable fingers sprout into existence) Sicilliana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsye2LHEll4 Capriccio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odR_S4ZgVUQ The tuning here is like guitar tuning. So it's a possibility to play modern-ishguitar music - but on a Baroque instrument. The modern guitar has six single strings and tends to avoid open strings and first position. The mandora/gallichon (perhaps a robust and extravert instrument) has double courses (except for the first) and octaves on the two basses. What might modern-ish guitar music sound like played on it? Here's something very 'straight', a Shanty by Martin Butler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgopnHyYg4o and something a bit more abstract: A Miniature by Michael Stimpson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbG5dQqNAMU Stuart To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
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