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5-course guitar for the Scheidler duet

I'm working up the Sonata in D for violin and guitar by Christian Scheidler. Having read that it is for a 5-string guitar, I am planning on playing it on a 5-course copy of the 1680 Voboam. I am keeping the double courses on and I have bourdons on the 4th and 5th courses. I am speculating that it was probably for a guitar with 5 single strings, but I don't know for sure. Does anyone have any information about what kind of guitar Scheidler had in mind for the piece?

Regards, Bruce Brogdon.

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Permalink Reply by Jelma van Amersfoort on August 8, 2013 at 8:09

Hello Bruce

What an interesting project. Have you determined yet as closely as possible when and where Scheidler wrote the sonata? That should help...

Jelma

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Permalink Reply by Bruce Brogdon on August 8, 2013 at 18:18

Hi Jelma,

thanks for your reply. I know that Scheidler lived until 1815. Two sonatas in the Boije collection are said to date from around 1793, and the preface to the U.E. edition state that the piece calls for a 5-string guitar. Whether Scheidler's guitar had double courses I have not discovered.