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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
Most bluegrass mandolin players choose one of two styles. Both have flat or nearly flat backs and arched tops. The so-called a-style mandolin has a teardrop-shaped body; the f-style mandolin is more stylized, with a spiraled wooden cone on the upper side and a couple of points on the lower side.
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.
Two styles of mandolin-banjo, showing a large and small head, with a full size, four-string banjo (bottom). L-R - Banjo-mandolin, standard mandolin, 3-course mandolin, Tenor mandola. 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]