[VIHUELA] Re: Diesel

2016-10-13 Thread WALSH STUART
Stuart, There appears to be no contemporaneous evidence of precisely how Diesel strung his guitar. From consideration of the music, voice leading, period of composition etc, I believe Diesel used a mandora like stringing - ie octaves on the fourth and fifths but with the

[VIHUELA] Re: Diesel

2016-10-13 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Dear Eduard, Thanks for this: my ancient photocopies (half size!) have become increasingly difficult to read so this is welcome. A useful summary of these books was presented by David Lyons' paper in the 1975 JLSA ' Nathanael Diesel, guitar tutor to a royal lady'. The lady being

[VIHUELA] Re: Diesel

2016-10-13 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Sorry, I sent you the full search link - here is the direct link [1]Prinsesse Charlotte Amalies nodesamling Prinsesse Charlotte Amalies nodesamling Martyn - Forwarded Message - From: Martyn Hodgson To: Eduard Agullo

[VIHUELA] Re: Diesel

2016-10-13 Thread WALSH STUART
The Royal Library of Copenhagen has made available finally this little known repertoire: [1]http://www.kb.dk/da/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/gks377.html [2]En Samling Tabulaturer for Guitar, mest af Nathanael ... www.kb.dk En Samling Tabulaturer for Guitar,

[VIHUELA] Re: Diesel

2016-10-13 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Stuart, There appears to be no contemporaneous evidence of precisely how Diesel strung his guitar. From consideration of the music, voice leading, period of composition etc, I believe Diesel used a mandora like stringing - ie octaves on the fourth and fifths but with the low bass