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There have been a couple of posts recently about Neapolitan bowlbacks - the Didone 10-string and my Agara and DiSanto - that sported labels making reference to the luthiers’ medals...
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There have been a couple of posts recently about Neapolitan bowlbacks - the Didone 10-string and my Agara and DiSanto - that sported labels making reference to the luthiers’ medals...
It is a waltz composed by Nino Rota for Visconti's film Il Gattopardo (1963). :mandosmiley:
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I am interested in mandolino fingerstyle technique. As this is not related to the Chaconne, should I start another thread? Specifically, I would like to know if punteado play (wonderful term,...
This is the theme of the film Balalaika (1939), an American musical romance film based on the 1936 London stage musical of the same name. Directed by Reinhold Schunzel, it starred Nelson Eddy and...
Last Sunday I had the great privilege of performing in a concert in Boston featuring the music of the composer and percussionist Susie Ibarra. The Classical Mandolin Society of America (CMSA) had...
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Celebrate spring with the Oregon Mandolin Orchestra’s live/virtual May 5 Sunday matinee concert in Southwest Portland
The Oregon Mandolin Orchestra invites you to join a spring...
The key is friendly to the guitar, and my approach was to tune the mandolin up a half step. Playing in Bb/Eb allowed using the open D and G strings. Much easier.
Btw, my cousin has an act playing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htvHZAhrYyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q-pz7jb1q0
here is another example: Johann Conrad Schlick, Divertimento in D, played by Caterina Lichtenberg and Silko Lisko on 12-string mandolines plus basso continuo.
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I've been away from the cafe for a few days so I missed this, but Eugene is correct. I'm pretty sure that they were playing Neapolitan mandolins. The mandolin came here from Italy by way of England,...
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Just posted on my blog about a new discovery: a piece for (Milanese) mandolin and piano from München ca. 1850. It's dedicated to Johann Cramer, a mandolin player active in the royal chapel...
Hey Neil and other curious minds,
glad I was able to help but as you know from having read the Vincent Leon chapter in IMHIA, I left Leon in limbo. Pieces of his puzzle were missing. Well, thanks...
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Masataka Hori was our mandocello section leader at CMSA Kansas City and presented an intensive MC workshop. Communicating with us through a translator, he was inspiring, amusing, and most...
Simon, those are books 3 and 4 posted by forum user "Geoff w/a G" on IMSLP in 2016...:)
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/1621-Ranieri-The-Art-of-the-Mandoline/page3
Not sure if this is it...
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dxkekj8sl2nspoz6a70mw/IMSLP428406-PMLP695238-2016_Ranieri_V3_-1.pdf?rlkey=c55blw0rwyz5umaa0gnubzlwd&dl=0
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"I don't have this recording on my own shelves yet, and online info isn't specific. Have any of you scored a copy? Does anybody know the mandolin type that Maddaluno used for this recording?...
I just bought it on iTunes for the bargain price of 6.99. I'll listen tomorrow, but the digital booklet says that he "plays on a mandolin built by Daniele Orlandi, modelled on a 1792 instrument by...
This is one I'd been eyeing for a while for a possible solo mandolin arrangement. I finally sat down and put something together this week. I worked it all out on my Gibson A-4, but at the last...
It's that time again, kids. Where else is this being celebrated on the internets?
Searching around for information on the man and ended up here. Don't think I've seen that page in 15 years.
"Still wanted are recordings of Calace's 13° Preludio, op.148"
Hi Eugene,
#13 is one of the most beautiful of the liuto preludes, IMHO. My liuto needs a fair amount of work at the moment...
In imslp.org comment that: "This song doesn't seem to have Neapolitan origin; probably it comes from middle Europe and was notated and arranged by G. Cottrau." Since the Cottrau, father and son,...
Sites like this have been around for a long time. It's a front for racking up ad revenue and/or possibly clicking on links one will regret, and there's no one at the wheel driving except to create...
This type of misinformation can occur among very rapidly advancing young, inexperienced or literary students. Also among groups of people who have a pre-constructed position to defend and of course...
Accuracy, like truth itself, is so last-century.