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Mandolins designed and manufactured by Gibson Brands Pages in category "Gibson mandolins" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list ...
Samuel Adelstein described the Lombard mandolin in 1893 as wider and shorter than the Neapolitan mandolin, with a shallower back and a shorter and wider neck, with six single strings to the regular mandolin's set of 4. [38] The Lombard was tuned C–D–A–E–B–G. [38] The strings were fastened to the bridge like a guitar's. [38]
The instruments that are known in the US as the mandola and the octave mandolin tend to be known in Great Britain and Ireland as the tenor mandola or the octave mandola. The Irish bouzouki is a very similar instrument, and is often confused with the octave mandolin, but an Irish Bouzouki has a longer scale length and a different tuning than the ...
They produced a variety of stringed instruments: guitars, banjoes, mandolins, ukuleles and even violins. Many of these were sold under the Kasuga brand. Kasuga was one of the first Japanese companies to begin producing and selling copies of guitars from the big US brands, primarily those from Gibson but also Fender, starting in 1972. [11]
Hohner has manufactured a wide range of instruments, such as harmonicas, kazoos, accordions, recorder flutes, melodicas, banjos, electric, acoustic, resonator and classical guitars, basses, mandolins and ukuleles (under the brand name Lanikai). Hohner is known mostly for its harmonicas.
Massachusetts. Cost-of-living (CoL) index change: 11.1 All change: $101 Retired index change: $98 Married couples with kids change: $123 Single change: $84 Born 1981-1997 change: $88 Methodology ...
Mandolin awareness in the United States blossomed in the 1880s, as the instrument became part of a fad that continued into the mid-1920s. [14] [15] According to Clarence L. Partee a publisher in the BMG movement (banjo, mandolin and guitar), the first mandolin made in the United States was made in 1883 or 1884 by Joseph Bohmann, who was an established maker of violins in Chicago. [16]
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 ...