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The term is used online by mandolin enthusiasts to name the time period when the mandolin had become popular, when mandolin orchestras were being organized worldwide, and new and high-quality instruments were increasingly common. After the First World War, the instrument's popularity again fell, though gradually. [61]
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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)
U. Rajesh was born on 17 May 1977 at Palakol, Andhra Pradesh, as the youngest child of U. Satyanarayana (father) and Kantham (mother). [3] He is the younger brother of late U. Srinivas, a notable mandolin player in Carnatic classical music, in India.
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
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.