Raffaele Calace Method for Mandolin in English

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Raffaele Calace Method for Mandolin in English
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Raffaele Calace Method for Mandolin, the essential treatise from the master of Neopolitan mandolin technique is now made accessible to the English-speaking student thanks to the work of Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg.

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[Jim Garber]

Excellent news!! Long time coming.

[KristinEliza]

I second Jim's comment.

[MandoNicity]

I must get a copy of this!

JR

[Mike Black]

By looking at the picture on the cover of Raffaele Calace holding a Mandolin. He must have been a very small guy. :)

[Jim Garber]

Those liuto cantabiles are monsters. The Munier Orchestra in Philadelphia have a Calace liuto. The neck is more than a baseball bat -- more like a bridge cable.

[brunello97]

By looking at the picture on the cover of Raffaele Calace holding a Mandolin. He must have been a very small guy. :)

I thought the same thing when I saw the photo..... Somewhere on the MC is a picture of Alex T playing a liuto cantabile (not certain of the maker). It is huge.

Mick

[Jim Garber]

I was going to post a picture of RC and his liuto but you can't post pictures on these newsfetcher threads.

[vkioulaphides]

This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjFdfjqIHHA

is the instrument in question (i.e. the one played by Alex, of course, not Calace himself).

QUITE impressive!

Cheers,

Victor

[brunello97]

Wonderful, Victor, both the composition and the playing. The accompanying text from Alex is very informative as well. I did not know this was a Puglisi instrument...... The Sicilian makers are usually overshadowed by those from the peninsula. Of course they made instruments across a wide range of quality levels. I have owned a few and am a big fan of their very eclectic design sensibilities. Big props to the family from Catania. I hope this helps raise them further up into the radar screen.

Mick

[Jim Garber]

Pictures of the Calace liuto from (I think) 1920s can be found here:

http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?1898-Post-a-Picture-of-Your-Bowlback-(or-any-others)&p=89071&viewfull=1#post89071

[vkioulaphides]

Wonderful, Victor, both the composition and the playing.

Thank you, my friend! Indeed, the playing is nothing short of ASTOUNDING, especially considering that I wrote this piece for dear Ali, to be played on her "Beast", ~merely~ a lil' old octave-mandolin ;-)

And, speaking of the radar screen, I would absolutely LOVE to write something expressly for this magnificent instrument, but of course that takes pragmatically a lower priority to those pieces for... *ahem*... somewhat more abundant instruments.

An absolutely GLORIOUS plucky thing, all the same... What would I/we not give to have heard Raffaele the Great actually play that liuto! Perhaps his works for it can be revived, and more frequently heard.

Cheers,

Victor

[Irénée]

Hello all !...

! Has Somebody (because I am seeking strongly for…) the Liuto Cantabile method written by Raffaele Calace

...And (may be, why not) other from him (or other such as: "The Bickford Method for Mando-cello" in 3 volumes) for Mandocello please ?

Thank you very much by advance !

[Jim Imhoff]

Hello all !...

! Has Somebody (because I am seeking strongly for…) the Liuto Cantabile method written by Raffaele Calace

...And (may be, why not) other from him (or other such as: "The Bickford Method for Mando-cello" in 3 volumes) for Mandocello please ?

Thank you very much by advance !

Already answered this a week ago in your post from another thread: Contact me, I got the Bickford. If you already found the source, just let me know.