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Extract from the proceedings of the conference “Il mandolino a Milano e in Lombardia nei secoli XVIII e XIX” – May 2022.
The use of cherry bark picks on gut-string instruments has been documented since ancient times . A rare discovery of some of these original picks has allowed to carry out some tests and for a more in-depth research.
Extract from the proceedings of the conference “Il mandolino a Milano e in Lombardia nei secoli XVIII e XIX” – May 2022.
Carlo Guadagnini was one of the first luthiers to regularly produce simple six-string mandolins since the second half of the 17th century: my research, which culminated with the making of some copies of his instruments, is summarized here.
A volume which recounts the birth of the modern Roman mandolin (later adopted and developed also by Embergher) through the life of a great virtuoso of the late 19th century, Giovan Battista Maldura, and moreover describes the city of Rome of that era.
It is available on Amazon in both Italian and English language editions.
(With a brief history of the Roman Mandolin from Maldura-De Santis to Embergher)
A complete list of mandolin patents filed in Italy up to 1930, taken from official and original documents.
The first and most important patent is the one of Maldura, which is also about the “invention” of the modern Roman Mandolin.
Full size drawing of a mandolin made by Luigi Embergher – mod. 5bis – 1921 (2 sheets, 70×100 cm).
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Notes for an organological (and musical) identification.
The Cremonese or Bresciano mandolin and the Tuscan mandolin are often confused with each other, although they are actually quite distinct from the organological and therefore also from the musical point of view…
News about Embergher’s workshop in Rome between 1893 and 1937 from the time’s yearbooks.
The first period of Luigi Embergher’s activity in Rome, after coming from Arpino, as well as the year this activity began and the list of addresses he changed, are often treated in a contradictory way by different sources, even recently, and until today there is no serious and documented filing work to support a reliable reconstruction.
A new iconographic source, a new hypothesis of philological reconstruction
About “colascione” it has been written so much, but less we know certainly concerning to executive procedure; equally less known is the use of “colascioncino” – the smallest instrument of the family – and “Cremonese” or “Bresciano” mandolin, of which few written music has come there only, to forehead of reliable historical traces, about a very diffused use between the XVIII and the beginning of the XIX century.
Full size drawing of a mandolin made by Giovanni De Santis – 1888 (2 sheets).
Full size drawing of a mandolin made by Luigi Embergher – mod. 3 – 1932 (4 sheets).
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