Dear Andreas,
Thank you very much for the citations in the AMZ. It would have taken me a
week to find them. At my age, I remember information, but cannot recall
where I found it, or where I've filed it away.g
You wrote:
There's a last sentence after your citation: unn die Ebrer quint saitten
Dear Arthur,
Thanks very much for your reply! And sorry for the corrections - the
Trafficante system is neither made for splitted octave strings nor for octave
transpositions... and I realized my mistake too late...
Thank you very much for your comments. I have a vague recollection that
Sorry - I have to make two corrections:
In tablature equivalent notation, this is ffh(e/a)h, in a-tuning:
Correct: ff(d/h)ah
a1
e1 e1
b1 b1
(g#1 e)
ee
Correct e1 e
aA (not used, only supposed).
Andreas
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Dear Andreas,
Thank you very much for your comments. I have a vague recollection that
German tablature was discussed somewhere in the Allgemeine musikalische
Zeitung early in the 19th century, but exactly when, I cannot recall. And
of course Baron mentions German
tablature, apparently the
The oldest transcriptions from German tablature I know date from 1848 to 1852
and were probably made by Robert (de) Pearsall. He transcribed D-Bds 40588 from
German tablature to old fashioned guitar notation. This original manuscript was
then in the library of the Wildegg castle 25 km from my
