Gamba Gagliarda from Intabolatura nova di varie sorte de balli, Antonio Gardane, Venezia 1551

Gamba Gagliarda
from INTABOLATVRA NOVA DI VARIE SORTE DE BALLI
DA Sonare Per arpicordi, Clauiciembali, Spinette, & Manachordi,
Raccolti Da diuersi Eccellentissimi Autori,
Nouamente data in Luce, & per Antonio Gardane Con ogni diligentia stampata.
LIBRO PRIMO
In Venetia Apresso di Antonio Gardane. 1551, fol. 6v
Museo internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna R.178
www.museibologna.it/musica
Venetian Renaissance spinet
Copy by Paolo Zerbinatti (2013) after the original built in Venice by Benedetto Floriani in 1571 and preserved in the Musikinstrumentenmuseum der Universität Leipzig.
By courtesy of the maker Paolo Zerbinatti
Performed at the Museo San Colombano of Bologna on 27 October 2023 as an integral part of the paper with live musical examples "Bassi ostinati e formule ornamentali nell'Intabolatura nova di varie sorte de balli, Venezia 1551 (I-Bc R.178)", presented at the International Symposium Bologna 2023 “Per Aures ad Animum”. The Harpsichord in the 16th Century II.
Recorded on 1 June 2024 at 51 Recording Studio, Bonavigo (VR), Italy.

[@guillecastillo2144]

Original y hermoso. Muchas gracias

[@vaniadalmaso]

Molte grazie da parte mia per l'apprezzamento!

[@jansteen72]

Bravissima Vania! ❤️

[@vaniadalmaso]

Grazie mille!

[@jimbo2629]

I have made four of these Italian pentagonal spinets based on the Queen Elizabeth Virginal in the V and A museum. To a greater or lesser degree the tapping technique is necessary especially in the bass where the vertical movement of the jacks is less, combined with the larger diameter of the strings. So in all a totally authentic performance. I don’t see how it could change the tone or the volume much. Historic instruments present problems that subsequent designs overcome. The tone of original antique Italian spinets is lovely despite their limitations.

[@vaniadalmaso]

Thank you for your very interesting comment!

[@HarpsichordVinylGallery]

Makes me happy. Some Valente is coming?

[@vaniadalmaso]

Thank you! I'm still not thinking about Valente, sorry

[@HarpsichordVinylGallery]

@@vaniadalmaso you are right, Valente is more music from Naples and not from Venice but it is also early dance music that makes me happy

[@bifeldman]

I bet this instrument will give a better sound with a more suave touch.

[@vaniadalmaso]

Of course it will! But... Gamba Gagliarda is a ‘ballo’, and I play it according to Girolamo Diruta: jumping and tapping with the fingers. In “Il Transilvano Dialogo”, Girolamo Diruta points out the differences between pressing and tapping (the former suitable for the organ, the latter suitable for pluck instruments), between organists and 'ballroom players', between the way of playing 'musical things' on organs and the way of playing dances on the harpsichord, which requires 'jumping, & tapping with the fingers'.