caldy valdy - medieval mandolin

[mandosandradios]

Very Good.

How are your strings tuned?

[IGOROZKARSKY]

1.

VALDI KALDI or the other way around

KALDI VALDI That´s Icelandic.

Valdi is a nick name for Valdimar

(propably orginally a Russian name).

KALDI means, well you could say "cool"

(Kaldur means cold), but rather it means

someone who is brave or daring.

[IGOROZKARSKY]

2.

Actually this is just a nice rhyme

But in my childhood, there was a guy,

that was called Valdi, & we kids always

added Kaldi to it, it sounded so nice,

VALDI KALDI.

In Medieval Icelandic you could spell it

VALDY KALDY, but now a days the “I” is

pronounced the same as the “Y”.

[lord0fshred]

This is how a mandolin is supposed to sound.

[billkilpatrick]

@lord0fshred - thank you

[WayOfTheNunchaku]

that was fantastic

[Astuga]

Nice one.

I am from Austria and heared about the Mönch von Salzburg in radio yesterday.

He seems to have been quite popular in Europe at his time.

Kind of a predecessor of Mozart in some way. ;)

[billkilpatrick]

from what little i know of his music, he seems to have been a very worldly monk indeed! i love the fact that he's completely anonymous - like those medieval artists known as "the master of ..." such-and-such a place.

[cantabri99]

i think i can bring some light in this story...

some historians suppose that the "mönch von salzburg" was archbishop pilgrim II. von puchheim itself who reigned in salzburg from 1365 - 1396.some text passages do suggest that. furthermore pilgrim hat good contacts to the poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut from Avignon who influenced the music and texts of the monk.

probably pilgrim II. wanted to stay incognito.

[Nupharluteum]

Man you're using a risha (middle eastern pick)

[Astuga]

Using something like that for playing a string instrument was the usual way when something like Middle East or Europe didn`t even existed as a term.

People played like that in Mesopotamia in ancient Greece in ancient Egypt and God knows where.

[Porthols]

Amazing! What is the pick that you are using though? I'm not familiar with it.

[Astuga]

I don`t know what he is using but a "quill" (made out of a birds feather) was widely used.

[randomwritings]

Wish I could have seen your other hand too - lovely sound

[skuzi]

that is awesome, what is the pick your using? is it a feather? lol, also,, do you have a music score to this?

[billkilpatrick]

thank you - no score that i know of but it's an easy enough tune to play by ear. the pick is called a risha, used in playing the oud - you can find them on ebay.

[billkilpatrick]

i agree, wilfried - in terms of the sound produced using this technique, i don't think there would have been a huge difference between a flat-back mandolin and a medieval, plectrum lute. all i was interested in was producing a sound that conforms to our idea of what medieval music, played on plucked instruments, might have sounded like.

[wwelti]

Very good idea to play medieval music with this technique, isn't it almost like a medieval lute was played? Sounds great anyway :) Regards, Wilfried

[lewdite]

nice pickin' there