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When the word "mandolin" is said in the 21st century, it usually refers to an instrument with 8 strings tuned in fifths, such as the Neapolitan mandolin or the American bluegrass mandolin. It is also commonly thought that mandolino is a diminutive of mandola, and that therefore the mandolino was a smaller development of the mandola.
The mandolin has a history on Tobago and Trinidad as the bandolin, dating back before World War I. [96] It was a small instrument, approximately 20 x 40 centimeters, strung with 8 strings in four courses of two each. [96] Before the war, it was commonly a round-backed instrument, made of strips of wood. [96] The flat-backed version appeared ...
A mandolin (Italian: mandolino, pronounced [mandoˈliːno]; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick.
mandolin [73] Stringed instrument Mandolin performance ⓘ 321.321: Japan: koto [74] Long and hollow thirteen-stringed instrument 312.22-7: Jewish: shofar [75] Horn, flattened by heat and hollowed, used for more religious than purely secular purposes, made from the horn of an animal, most typically a ram or kudu: 423.121.1 Kazakhstan: dombra ...
Daf, duf, or dafli – medium or large frame drum without jingles, of Persian origin; Dubki, dimdi or dimri – small frame drum without jingles; Kanjira – small frame drum with one jingle; Kansi – small drum without jingles; Patayani thappu – medium frame drum played with hands
mandolin part on Grateful Dead's Friend of the Devil [154] [155] Levon Helm, The Band; Chris Hillman, The Byrds, mandolin part of Sweet Mary; Ray Jackson, [156] mandolin part of Rod Stewart's Maggie May, Lindisfarne (band) John Paul Jones (United Kingdom), [157] Led Zeppelin, mandolin part of Gallows Pole [158] Bernie Leadon (United States)
Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body". [1]The lute family includes not only short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo ...
Uppalapu Srinivas (28 February 1969 – 19 September 2014) was an Indian mandolin player in Carnatic classical music and composer. U. Srinivas was called the Mozart of classical Indian music and he was a child prodigy.