I really enjoyed this, Stuart. Thanks for posting! Best, Jocelyn
On 1/10/2011 7:04 AM, "Chris Despopoulos" <despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanks... My instrument is 30 cm, and actually 5-course, single > strung. I presume it's made according to historical understanding... > I believe Carlos Gonzales is a historian as well as builder -- he's > planning a workshop on building ancient Egyptian/Coptic lutes this > April, for example. I prefer to use the thin quill of a feather as a > plectrum, as I saw done on the R. lute once. For as thin and short as > the strings are, it helps to have something equally tiny to set the > string in motion. And of course, the Chancy MS is to be done with a > plectrum as far as I know. > But I have to say, your playing had me fooled... It sounds like a > mandore to me! And they are lovely tunes. > cud > __________________________________________________________________ > > From: Stuart Walsh <s.wa...@ntlworld.com> > To: Vihuelalist <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Mon, January 10, 2011 6:19:40 AM > Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: some Ulm mandore pieces > Thanks Chris > I should have said I'm not playing these pieces on a mandore, but on a > small, single-strung instrument, tuned like a mandore. My instrument > has a string length of 37cms and so is larger (and, no doubt, easier to > play) than a typical four-course, four-string mandore. On the other > hand, maybe there was a difference in size between the four-course > (four-string) plectrum-played mandore and the five-course, fingerstyle > (or plectrum+fingers style) instrument. > I knew about the Ulm tablatures from Donald Gill and James Tyler but it > was Jean-Marie Poirier who pointed me in the direction of the Cornetto > catalogue. > [1]http://www.faksimiles.org/verlag.htm > I think there are three separate tabaltures in the Ulm collection and > the Cornetto facsimiles are quite expensive. At Jean-Marie's suggestion > I got Cornetto catalogue, 0073 which turned out to be two > nicely-produced facsimiles. The main 'book' (there's probably a > technical name for a publication roughly 8 inches by 6 inches) has > music for a five course instrument and uses a couple of tunings but > mainly one (in fourths and fifths, without lowering the first course). > Like the Skene MS, it has to be fingerstyle or plectrum plus fingers. > The supplementary 'book' has only a few pieces, all or mainly from the > larger collection, but now set for a four-course instrument, presumably > to be played with a plectrum. > Stuart > To get on or off this list see list information at > [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > >References > > 1. http://www.faksimiles.org/verlag.htm > 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html >
