Bach's Air on the G-String on Pardessus
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Channel: My Life With Early Music · 2011 · Music
The pardessus de viole is the smallest size of viola da gamba. It was invented around 1690 possibly as the brainchild of the famous gambist Marin Marais and the luthier Michel Colichon (the pardessus you hear in this video is a copy of Colichon by F. v.d. Voort: http://www.vandervoorthistoricalinstruments.com/). It started out as an instrument with six strings and then was modified over its 100-year lifetime to have five and then four strings. more about the pardessus here: http://users.skynet.be/richardsutcliffe/pardessus.htm#Whatp ernst stolz
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