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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. [35] The Lombard was tuned C–D–A–E–B–G. [35] The strings were fastened to the bridge like a guitar's. [35]
John D'Angelico was born in 1905 in New York to an Italian-American family, and was apprenticed in 1914 to his great-uncle, Raphael Ciani, who made violins, mandolins, and flat top guitars. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This apprenticeship would become the basis for construction principles he later incorporated into his archtop guitars. [ 4 ]
The Algerian mandole is a stringed instrument, with an almond shaped body, built in a box like a guitar, but almond shaped like the mandola with a flat back, raised fingerboard, and wide neck (as a guitar's). [2] It can have eight, ten, or twelve strings in doubled courses, and may have additional frets between frets to provide quarter tones.
The standard cümbüş is fretless, but guitar, mandolin and ukulele versions have fretboards. The neck is adjustable, allowing the musician to change the angle of the neck to its strings by turning a screw. [3] One model is made with a wooden resonator bowl, with the effect of a less tinny, softer sound. [4]
The internal bracing is similar to the mandolin and mandola, with a single transverse brace on the top just below the oval sound hole. On modern instruments X-bracing is sometimes used. As is typical of the mandolin family, octave mandolins can be found with either a single oval soundhole or a pair of "f " soundholes. As with the scale length ...
Three musical instruments with scalloped necks, guitar, mandolin, and a possible hybrid of the two. [111] The French ruled Vietnam completely by 1884 and set up a system of modern education. The population was exposed to French culture and music, which included the mandolin. The influence of French culture was strong enough to affect Vietnamese ...
Old traditional mandolins with round backs, for example, are difficult to play in a standing position and are almost never used. Some older mandolins have relatively few frets, limiting the mandolin player's use of high notes. Most bluegrass mandolin players choose one of two styles. Both have flat or nearly flat backs and arched tops.
The cylinder-back is a style of mandolin manufactured by the Vega Company of Boston, MA between 1913 and roughly 1925. The design patent (US patent number D44838) for the instrument was issued on November 4, 1913 to David L. Day, who was director and chief acoustical engineer for the stringed instrument division of the Vega Company.