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Yesterday, 2:44pm

Eugene replied to a thread Polyetherimide plectra in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Excellent point, Michael. The Primetone line is interesting. I have played around with the typical jazz-guitar and large-triangle profiles from...

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Yesterday, 2:38pm

Eugene replied to a thread Polyetherimide plectra in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Voila. Left to right, these are antique tortoiseshell (approx. 0.8 mm thick, but super rigid), antique celluloid (as discussed below), and Galli...

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Jan-15-2021, 10:22am

Eugene replied to a thread Polyetherimide plectra in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Yeah . . . That's why I have Galli on my short list.

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Jan-14-2021, 5:16pm

Eugene replied to a thread Polyetherimide plectra in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

I've looked at the online custom-order forms, but they amount only to getting something printed in bulk on their standard lines of picks. I've tried...

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Jan-14-2021, 12:50pm

Eugene replied to a thread Polyetherimide plectra in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Yes, I recall. Thanks for the thoughts.

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Jan-14-2021, 12:43pm

Eugene replied to a thread Raffaele Calace Mandolin Virtuoso Bolero Rare 78 rpm in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

A bit more than two hours of this material has been compiled to CD, but it's not at all easy to lay hands to it:...

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Jan-14-2021, 10:53am

Eugene replied to a thread Sounds I wish would enter my earholes in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Another sound I wish would enter my earholes is a professional recording—or any recording or performance, for that matter—of Calace's concerto for...

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Jan-14-2021, 10:41am

Eugene replied to a thread Polyetherimide plectra in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Yes, of course, but many of the old ones and my personal preference favor longish, perhaps just shy of 40 mm.

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Jan-13-2021, 3:26pm

Eugene replied to a thread Polyetherimide plectra in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Wider and shorter. I like this profile for guitars (although it's been a very long time since I've applied plectra to guitars). Perhaps oddly, I've...

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Jan-13-2021, 1:09pm

Eugene started a thread Polyetherimide plectra in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

I really doubt it, but does anybody know of any pick makers fashioning Neapolitan-type pletcra of polyetherimide (which goes by the trade name Ultem...

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Jan-09-2021, 3:17pm

Eugene replied to a thread Sounds I wish would enter my earholes in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Yeah, that too . . .

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Jan-09-2021, 10:50am

Eugene replied to a thread Sounds I wish would enter my earholes in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Thanks, Joe. I am a long-time member. Now to address my limitations: I'll need a mandolin quartet, substantial string orchestra, and large...

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Jan-08-2021, 11:02pm

Eugene started a thread Sounds I wish would enter my earholes in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Here's a thing I really want to hear: Ralph Vaughan Williams' (1872–1958) Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis with a mandolin-family quartetto...

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Jan-06-2021, 10:54am

Eugene replied to a thread J.S. Bach Siciliano in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Nice arrangement.

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Jan-04-2021, 5:48pm

Eugene replied to a thread Ekaterina Skliar & Anna Kislitsyna WoO 43a in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Interesting to pair a harpsichord (which is often approached as the domain of early-music and historic performance specialists) with a very modern...

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Jan-04-2021, 5:40pm

Eugene replied to a thread A mando orchestra what am a mando orchestra in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Guitars are almost universal to mandolin orchestras (as were banjos during the "golden era"). They offer some diversity of timbre, similar to...

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Jan-04-2021, 9:57am

Eugene replied to a thread A mando orchestra what am a mando orchestra in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

For what it's worth, Respighi himself named this movement "La Befana," a witch-like old woman of Italian folklore. Because it's easier to...

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Jan-03-2021, 11:01am

Eugene replied to a thread A mando orchestra what am a mando orchestra in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Wow. Pretty remarkable playing. I've actually played this work, but in the original orchestral setting (it's the only time I've had the opportunity...

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Jan-03-2021, 10:58am

Eugene replied to a thread On The Hills Of Manchuria (I.A. Shatrov, 1906) in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

I've played a solo guitar arrangement of this tune that was published by a deceased friend of mine, Matanya, through his company Editions Orphée. ...

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Dec-28-2020, 9:46am

Eugene replied to a thread Source for Jules Cottin melodic studies? in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Have you tried https://www.loc.gov/search/?all=true&q=jules+cottin? Never mind. Looks like they list it as "catalogue record only."

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Dec-28-2020, 9:41am

Eugene replied to a thread Bowlbacks of Note in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

. . . and there certainly was some precedent for the existence of a "Mandolino lombardo a corde doppie metalliche."

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Dec-22-2020, 3:56pm

Eugene replied to a thread Bowlbacks of Note in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

PPS: And, just for good measure, from the appendix "Varie forme di mandolini e strumenti affini" of Pisani's method (Pisani, A. 1899. Manuale...

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Dec-22-2020, 3:40pm

Eugene replied to a thread Bowlbacks of Note in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

PS: I dug a little deeper into my e-mail archive on this odd 6-course Embergher. It looks like my first visit with the piece was in summer 2004 and...

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Dec-20-2020, 10:21am

Eugene replied to a thread Using tremolo with classical music on an octave mandolin in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

And here's a fairly well-known ensemble that often eschews tremolo entirely: . . . but when they do use it, all the mandokin are in:

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Dec-20-2020, 10:19am

Eugene replied to a thread Using tremolo with classical music on an octave mandolin in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

It's often a matter of personal choice. However, in ensemble, I tend to prefer to hear all the mandolin-family instruments applying similar...

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Dec-19-2020, 11:18am

Eugene replied to a thread Bowlbacks of Note in Orchestral, Classical, Italian, Medieval, Renaissance

Searching for images of something altogether different, I stumbled across this posted during one of my prolonged absences from the cafe. I first...

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