Breitkopf Catalogue of da spalla music in 1762
Actually, Violoncello da braccia.
Hallo! I have to admit that the deadline of this newsletter caught me completely by surprise. Sometimes, you are simply too much into your projects to take care of the date!
I don’t want to completely fail my commitment, as well as not to spoil your time with useless talks.
So this will be a brief note about a short document: the Breitkopf Catalogue from 1762:
According to Mark M. Smith this catalogue is not of printed music, but of manuscripts that were ready to be copied on order. It’s simply interesting the fact that the violoncello da braccia players (opposed as the da gamba) were a slice of the market. The repertoire oroposed may not be the most interesting of the period, but the existence of the instrument is not questionable.
News from da Spalla world
We will ship out Warchal strings this week! Almost half of the backers didn’t fill in their addresses, if you are one of them, please do, or we cannot ship you the strings! You should have received a survey from Kickstarter on the 6th morning. Please, check in you spam for it.
Updates from our workshop
We’re going on with all ur projects at once. As we have to source for some materials or tools and we don’t want to stop, we now have on the bench two da spallas, one baroque viola, one big cello, one bass viol!
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