Cherry bark mandolin picks: investigations and experiments.

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.

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Mandolins of Carlo Guadagnini with six single strings between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century: a “Turin” mandolin?

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.

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路易吉•艾伯格在罗马第一个地址的乐谱。

1893年至1937年间艾伯格在罗马工作坊的相关资讯。

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.

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意大利的一种古代弦乐器「colascioncino」可能是十八世纪克雷莫纳瑟 / 布雷西亚诺 曼陀林的前身?

一个关于「斯特拉迪瓦里」(stradivariana)新的肖像学来源,猜测就是依照文献来重建。

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.