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Scan 84
Musical instruments, 1925
12 lines. Read by computer on 21 September 2026. Printed page 70. See the scan on archive.org.
1would be welcome.* Royal amateurs such as Henry VIII and his children as well as men of note like Martin Luther were performers on the Lute while J. S. Bach, wrote several pieces for it, among them the Fugue in G-minor, later rewritten for violin solo in D-minor and then again recast for the organ.
3MANDOLINE AND MANDOLA
5The only instruments in use at the present day that are akin to the Lute are the Mandoline and its tenor brother the Mandola or Mandora. The latter is extremely rare. They may be regarded as first cousins to the Lute for they too have the pear-shaped back in common and are played with a plectrum or pick of ivory, horn or tortoise shell. But unlike the Lute they possess four unison pairs of wire strings, tuned respectively like the Violin and Viola.
7MANDOLINE MANDOLA
9The tone of the Mandoline is fine and wiry but singularly penetrating, so that its presence in the orchestra even in a forte passage is quite obvious.
11*So obsolete has the Lute become that although it is a feature of the Meistersinger score, the passages demanding it are played on a dismantled harp.
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