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2. Mandolin-banjo - Wikipedia

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   The mandolin-banjo is a hybrid instrument, combining a banjo body with the neck and tuning of a mandolin. It is a soprano banjo. [ 1 ] It has been independently invented in more than one country, variously being called mandolin-banjo, banjo-mandolin, banjolin and banjourine in English-speaking countries, [ 2 ] banjoline and bandoline in France ...

3. Neck (music) - Wikipedia

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   The neck is the part of certain string instruments that projects from the main body and is the base of the fingerboard, where the fingers are placed to stop the strings at different pitches. Guitars , banjos , ukuleles , lutes , the violin family , and the mandolin family are examples of instruments which have necks.

4. Mandolin - Wikipedia

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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. [54] 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.

5. Plucked string instrument - Wikipedia

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   Stringed instruments hanging on a wall. Shown here are 4 Ukuleles, 2 Mandolins, a Banjo, a Guitar, a Violin, a Guraitar and a Bass guitar. Qanún/kanun, origin from ancient Mesopotamia Kantele. Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing ...

6. History of the mandolin - Wikipedia

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   Instruments in this tradition include the Neapolitan mandolin, Roman mandolin, Genovés mandolin and Sicilian mandolin. [33] Similarly, the chart shows a possible blending of the mandolino and colascione to create the longer-necked Florentine mandolin, the Brescian mandolin and the Cremonese mandolin, all which retained the mandola's glued down ...

7. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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   Long neck banjo; Plectrum banjo; Tenor banjo; Barbat (Iran) Basolia (Ukraine and Poland) Bass guitar. Electric bass guitar; Acoustic bass guitar; Begena (Ethiopia) Biwa (Japanese) Bordonua (Puerto Rico) Bouzouki (Greece) Trichorda; Tetrachorda; Brac; Bugarija (Croatia) Buzuq (Lebanon) Cak; Cavaquinho (Portugal and Brazil) Cekuntrung (Indonesia ...