Talk:Beethoven's mandolin music

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First Sentence is Inaccurate

It is known that Beethoven wrote five pieces (not six, as the article currently has it) for mandolin and piano (not harpsichord, as some sources maintain), one of which was lost around the time of World War I (I’m too lazy just now to retrieve the actual year). It is speculated by some that various other scraps Beethoven left are evidence of a sixth piece but speculation is not evidence. Yes, the first sentence is sourced, but the source is Marilyn Mair who is a mandolin player not a musicologist, or any kind of a scholar. I know her writings well, and I own a copy of her unscholarly mandolin instruction book. By the way, I question why this article should exist at all. The parts of it that are accurate can be added either to the Wikipedia article on Beethoven or the Wikipedia article on the mandolin, and the rest of it can be discarded. TheScotch (talk) 23:20, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]