kitarist -> RE: PDL chart - key, cejilla, tuning (Feb. 3 2021 0:33:51)
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Slightly off topic: what is the history of the cejilla in Flamenco, I've not even one in any historical photos, could be I was not looking. Consensus is late 1700s; design same as it's always been. Same timing with the English yoke version of capo. Some early cejillas: http://www.sternercapo.se/Capomuseum/Strap/Nonelastic/nonelast.htm Capo = Capo tasto = head fret. Originally referring to what we now call the nut. First documented uttering of that word - in 1640 by Giovanni Battista Doni in his treatise "Annotazioni sopra il Compendio del Trattato de' generi e de' modi della musica". BTW this is the same dude who is said to have cleverly changed the solfege syllable for 'C' from 'Ut' to 'Do', claiming it stands for 'Dominus' and that it is more musical to pronounce. His contemporaries suspected the real reason was that it was short for 'Doni', his family name. (Though Doni refers to 'C' as 'Ut' here. Also, apparently the use of the syllable "do" is already attested in 1536 (long before the birth of Doni) in a text by Pietro Aretino). Doni died in 1647, seven years after the publication of 'Annotazioni'. So in that 1640 book, while 'capotasto' is used to refer to the nut, the book does refer to a 'tastino' as in a little fret, seemingly meaning a movable fret, and there is a drawing of it, for an eight-string bass violon fretted instrument - the design even has a couple of flippable stops so the strings underneath can ring at their original pitch with the capo on, if desired:
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