Good information here: http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/mandolins.htm
The upper strings are all in fourths, with smaller interval between the 5th and 6th string. Pretty similar to...
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Good information here: http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/mandolins.htm
The upper strings are all in fourths, with smaller interval between the 5th and 6th string. Pretty similar to...
In Finnish the genetive ending is -n (Arton = Artoīs) or -in after a consonant (Astridin = Astridīs). I donīt know Russian but in this case it has nothing to do with that language.
If the tune...
This has been posted many times, but here goes again. Young Tamara Volskaya. Sweet, so sweet....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve_EhkMVbFY
I think it was our dear MC friend Jim Garber who once wrote this (please correct me if the thanks should go to somebory else), but my favourite quote and motto in music has for many years been this:...
"The soundboard is 18th century." The wood, or re-used actual soundboard?
Mammoth ivory back... Unbelievable! I canīt imagine what this beauty must have cost you! Did you mortgage your house, or...
Of course you are right, Jim. I have tried to get the important ones IMHO, especially the most comprehensive.
This is great news! Calaceīs method has been on my wish list for a long time. I understood this is translated from the original? Good - what I have heard during the years is that the the original in...
I have some faint idea that there would have been some recordings of Silvio Ranieri as a mandolin orchestra conductor, but not as a soloist. If this was so, there must be others here who know more.
Wow Plamen, thanks. I didnīt think that methods written in "obscure languages" could apply...
About Richardīs post above and angliziced names... I once bought some piano sheet music at an Italian...
Great to have more Baroque music transcribed especially for mandolin! I thoroughly enjoyed Sebastiaan de Grebberīs "Fantasia Romantica" CD, that includes Telemannīs Fantasia IX for violin as its...
So very beautiful, both music and interpretation!
Jim: "Also, since the top wood is spruce, it would be suicide to have it unfinished IMHO."
I doubt that itīs not suicidal. I donīt know about Western lutes, but traditionally (and still now) the...
I wonder if I would dare to carry an instrument like that around at all if Iīd had one....
For some reason this brought to my mind a Iaido-practising friend of mine years ago who trained with a...
"Back then, I played b*njo and guitar more than mandolin. One day in Harvard Square, I saw a young man busking with his banjo on a street corner. I went over to listen, and man! this guy could play...
Jim: "Even better: here is the direct link to Neil's compendium of Contemporary American Music for Mandolin that Scott found. I believe that Neil has been compiling that page for some time. Quite an...
An interesting question from the OP. I donīt know anything about bandolim playing technique, but I doubt pick thinness explains it all. Domra players use a similar bent-right-thumb approach, and as...
"But I read a lot of stuff about more of a rotation of the wrist, as if you are shaking out a match - but smaller."
The movement is often described like this, but I have got to be more and more...
I, too, was so happy seeing Duilio Galfetti in YouTube! Great music! Thanks to K.Wong. Galfetti was to give a lecture about Vivaldiīs mandolin music in Trossingen in 2004, but unfortunately he was...
It was fun doing a Google search for Octar. First hit had something to do with multiple telemetry protocols, whatever they might be. Second was some obscure Hun ("Octar was a Hunnic ruler. His rule...
You never know what the kids like... One classical music commentator here mentioned a friend of hers, who had got Rigoletto opera DVD as a Christmas present for her 1-year old child. It was obviously...
Maybe the first was a recorder in elementary school, and about the same time various kanteles and other zither-like contraptions made by myself of planks, nails and rubber bands... Mandolin around...
"In plain terms, the audience reacts with a natural, uninhibited, pre-cognitive "Wow!" when experiencing that sparkling, scintillating pick-every-note effect of a mandolin trill because it projects...
Interesting how these can be decribed in many ways... :) Iīd say, a rather narrow teardrop shape with a sharp point.
A Neapolitan pick in the top left corner, above a Roman one:
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Thanks Michael for the YouTube clips! Robinīs 1990 album "Luth & tabla" was one of my first oud albums ever (some buzuq tracks, too). Itīs still great to listen - wonderful player!
The exhibition booklet Ring the Banjar! by Robert Lloyd Webb calls this instrument "mandoline-banjo" (wooden instrument with mandolin body, bowlback or flatback, and 5-string banjo neck). I suppose...