Snagged. Excellent effort, you're doing God's work here!
Snagged. Excellent effort, you're doing God's work here!
Pomeroy #244 Custom Mandocello - "Liuto Americano"
NS Design CR6 Electric Cello
The copy I was taking from was 1915, so yes 100% this is a public domain work worldwide.
My college career was spent studying copyright so i am careful about what sources I pull from and if I can verify their dates.
I will have some more bickford stuff coming in the near future and have verified the copyrights have expired for those also.
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts
of both, they were not discontented with each other. -- Segovia
Lawrence Smart Stern 2-point Mandolin
Lawrence Smart Stern 2-point Mandola
Weber Gallatin Mandocello
Weber Gallatin Soprano (Piccolo) Mandolin
Breedlove Prototype Mandolin
Thanks, Benjamin -- very useful! Are you still planning on preparing an edition in octave treble clef, i.e. one octave lower than the universal notation? That would be useful for OM and guitar players (and for mandocello players who find reading octave treble clef easier than bass clef, i.e. me).
Martin
Ben!
A big question at my CMSA Mandocello Workshop was "bass clef? ... Please?" and you have answered that call. I will get word to my com-bass clef-patriots, and there were a lot of us--at least 25 mandocellos and a couple lituo cantabiles. Thank you for this important contribution, and to the clarity on the whole copyright issue.
Jim
Thanks everyone. Just a few answers.
Martin G-Clef will be coming probably after the Tab version is done (which I'm working on now). The biggest issue with that is the mandolin and guitar accompaniments would have to be adjusted in a couple of spots.
All of the methods will be going up on my musicaneo site once I feel they're on their way to being done. I still have to do some more editing, clef fixing, etc, and with the tab one, it's going to take a little time.
As for costs, I'll probably bundle them all together for like $5 or you can get specific ones for around $1-2. I'm not trying to make money, just recoup a little cost on my side and pay for some printing (and hopefully get some international buyers). Anyone who has helped me or who is a long time provider to the forum, if you just message me, I'll get you a copy once they're done.
Even with all of the editing, I've already started on the next project which is the Advanced Mandocello book and I have my centerpiece already completed. Can't wait to share it with you all.
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts
of both, they were not discontented with each other. -- Segovia
Lawrence Smart Stern 2-point Mandolin
Lawrence Smart Stern 2-point Mandola
Weber Gallatin Mandocello
Weber Gallatin Soprano (Piccolo) Mandolin
Breedlove Prototype Mandolin
this is awesome.... I would rank the utility of the various versions as follows:
1. bass clef version
2-3. tie between G-transposed treble clef 8va for octave
and an untransposed treble clef 8va (with low C string in bass clef) to match how Calace liuto works are typeset (did you consider this?)
4. tab
5. 15va treble clef
Thanks for that, Benjamin. Are you referring to an edition in G clef transposed to a different pitch/key? I was thinking of simply having the universal notation edition written one octave lower, in octave treble clef rather than double octave treble clef, but without any transposing -- see the attached example for the Cantabile etude which I transcribed a while ago. I don't think this would need any adjusting of the accompaniments, just a quick change of clef in the Musescore file from bass clef to octave treble.
Thanks for all your efforts!
Martin
That is a beautiful instrument. I would love a Gibson K-4, but I’m also very happy with my Weber Gallatin Mandocello. I saw that Weber made a 10 string mandocello at one time. That would be the dream instrument, but I’m sure that would cost me a kidney and some other organs to afford it
I hope that you find some use with the method, There are some good parts in it. I’ve located some clef errors in that version. Just some missing the 15 at the bottom of the clef, so if something doesn’t seem like it should be being played 2 octaves up, it probably is missing the octave clef sign.
Also, I don’t know of you read bass clef, but there will be a version of that coming out shortly also. I have some friends looking over that portion and hope to have it ready in the next month or so.
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts
of both, they were not discontented with each other. -- Segovia
Lawrence Smart Stern 2-point Mandolin
Lawrence Smart Stern 2-point Mandola
Weber Gallatin Mandocello
Weber Gallatin Soprano (Piccolo) Mandolin
Breedlove Prototype Mandolin
Thanks for the effort, benjamin. I have the original, but this is a great resource and I look forward to the bass clef version!
Col B
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