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The clavichord is an example of a period instrument. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments".
The pardessus de viole is the smallest of the viol family. Its size is similar to the violin's, and its range is correspondingly similar. [1] The strings are made of gut (like on any bowed string instrument until the 1970s) and the top string was tuned to g'', [2] a fourth higher than the top string of the treble viol.
Like the mandora described above, it is in "lute" form, but it is a tenor instrument of five paired courses. The string length is variable, like all of the lute family, but generally in the range of 32 to 36 cm. Tuning patterns are unique, the intervals between courses being alternating fourths and fifths, for example d-g-d'-g'-d", as Pretorius ...
This used to be the common picture of the mandolin, an obscure instrument of romance in the hands of a Spanish nobleman. [1] The mandolin is a modern member of the lute family, dating back to Italy in the 18th century. The instrument was played across Europe but then disappeared after the Napoleonic Wars.
In the 18th century, mandora was the name of a six-course lute instrument of about 70 cm string length, tuned high-to-low d' - a - f - c - G - F or e' - b - g - d - A - E (rarely with two or three additional bass courses). With the former tuning, the instrument was called Calichon or Galichon in Bohemia.
Shaped like a guitar; [153] on loan to Simone Lamsma. Firebird; ex-Saint Exupéry: 1718 Salvatore Accardo: Named for the colouration of the varnish, and for the instrument's brilliant sound. Marquis de Rivière: 1718 Daniel Majeske Played by Majeske while concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1969–1993. San Lorenzo: 1718 Georg Talbot
Many luthiers today offer violin-family instruments in early set-up, though much is still unknown, given the relative scarcity of unaltered original instruments for study. Typically, period instrument players attempt to learn the style and aesthetic appropriate to the music and instruments in period treatises and facsimile editions.
The chrotta was originally strung with three, later with six, strings, and was played with a bow. It is quite possible that the chrotta is the oldest bowed instrument and the antecessor to the violin. [7] A variety of string instruments so designated are thought to have been played in Wales since at least Roman times.