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An instrument with a mandolin neck paired with a banjo-style body was patented by Benjamin Bradbury of Brooklyn in 1882 and given the name banjolin by John Farris in 1885. [57] Today banjolin is sometimes reserved to describe an instrument with four strings, while the version with the four courses of double strings is called a mandolin-banjo.
Joseph Brent in 2013 with his custom-made 10-string mandolin, named Kumi. On October 16, 2015, Brent's improvising ensemble 9 Horses , featuring violinist Sara Caswell and bassist Shawn Conley released their debut album Perfectest Herald on Sunnyside Records , [ 21 ] and in 2016 were the winners of the 21CM LAUNCH: Emerging Artists Competition.
Orville H. Gibson (May 8, 1856 – August 19, 1918) was an American luthier who founded the Gibson Guitar Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1902, makers of guitars, mandolins and other instruments. [1] His earliest known instrument was a 10-string mandolin-guitar, which bears the date 1894. [2]
Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode) Magnetic resonance piano , (strings activated by electromagnetic fields) Stringed instruments with keyboards
Fretted stringed instrument, short-necked, 4 courses/8 strings or 5 courses/10 strings or 6 courses/12 strings. Flat soundboard and flatback. mandolin [10] bandolim Europe, has spread worldwide 321.322 Fretted stringed instrument, short-necked, the types belonging to this category have a flat, carved, or canted soundboard and flat or carved ...
The number of strings on these variant instruments ranges from four to 20, and courses may be single, double, triple, or quadruple strung. (The standard charango has 10 strings in five courses of two strings each.) [16] Some types of charango are: Walaycho A 12-string chillador
Guitar, 10 string 10 strings 10 courses. F ♯ 2 G ♯ 2 A ♯ 2 C 2 E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4: 10 String classical guitar Spain Standard tuning, developed by luthier José Ramírez III in collaboration with guitarist Narciso Yepes: Twelve-string guitar, 12 string 12 strings 6 courses. Standard/common: E 3 E 2 •A 3 A 2 •D 4 D 3 •G 4 G 3 ...
The Algerian mandole (mandol, mondol) is a steel-string fretted instrument resembling an elongated mandolin, widely used in Algerian music such as Chaabi, Kabyle music and Nuubaat (Andalusian classical music). [1] [2] [3] The name can cause confusion, as "mandole" is a French word for mandola, the