On Jul 22, 2013, at 2:51 AM, Martyn Hodgson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I note that you now have the reference I sent you about Kuhnau's > request for gallichon being refused by the authorities: would you > kindly pass the information onto the other people you consulted who > also were not aware of this - I thought it common knowledge and I'm > sorry that you were inadvertently misled. I wasn't misled. I didn't say I believed them. Or you, necessarily, for that matter. But I will check the article you cited on my next trip to the library. > But it also emphasises that > there was probably not, as you suggest 'a long tradition of > gallichon-playing in the Leipzig church music Bach supervised.'. Not really. Kuhnau used gallichons before his 1704 request, and likely went on using them after. Indeed, Dreyfuss notes an engraving from about 1710 showing a gallichon in the Thomas-Kirche. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
