Salvatore Falbo Giangreco – Compositions for Mandolin Orchestra

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The compositions by Salvatore Falbo Giangreco are very popular in Japan. Falbo reached the 6th position in an evaluation of the most played composers by mandolin orchestras in Japan ( Auswertung über die meistgespielten Komponisten bei japanischen Mandolinenorchestern ). I have found many videos of works via Falbo, mostly played by Japanese mandolin orchestras. In …

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A Concert with the Duo AREKIPE (Kathy Lasso & Ricardo Sandoval) with Matthias Collet

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A concert with the Duo AREKIPE – Ricardo Sandoval (Venezuela) and Kathy Lasso (Colombia) – has recently been added to the youtube channel of Ricardo Sandoval. The guitarist Matthias Collet joined the duo for this concert. You can hear a nice program of duets and trios for mandolins, bandurrias (or bandola andina) and guitar. Programm …

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Mandolins, Pandurinas, Mandolones and Colachons – Catalog of the Music Instruments Museum in Cöln 1910/1912

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On the archive.org website I have found two books showing the musical instruments collection of a museum in Cöln (Cologne). The second volume of the catalog describes the plucked instruments. For this article I have selected the mandolin family and extracted the pictures. The quality of those pictures  is not the best, but they are …

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Mandolin Methods, a Mandolin Album and free Sheet Music for Mandolin – Royal Library Copenhagen

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In the digital archive of the Royal Library in Copenhagen you can find some free sheet music for the mandolin. I have found several mandolin methods and a volume “Mandolin players entertainment album” with more than 200 pages with music for mandoline solo, studies for mandolin and pieces for mandolin and guitar. The mandolin methods …

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