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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]
Instruments of the mandolin family are popular in Japan, particularly Neapolitan (round-back) style instruments, and Roman-Embergher style mandolins are still being made there. [50] Japan became seriously interested in mandolins at the beginning of the 20th century during a process of becoming westernized. [ 51 ]
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.
A rich variety of musical instruments are known from Georgia. Among the most popular instruments are blown instruments, like the soinari, known in Samegrelo as larchemi (Georgian panpipe), stviri , gudastviri , string instruments like changi , chonguri (four stringed unfretted long neck lute), panduri (three stringed fretted long neck lute ...
1930 National Triolian resonator mandolin. The first [clarification needed] company was formed by George Beauchamp, a vaudeville steel guitar player and house painter, and inventor John Dopyera, a violinist and luthier. Dopyera had seen an amplified Stroh stick violin nearby [clarification needed] with a small flat diaphragm and long attached ...
Regal made a line of mandolins for Perlberg & Halpin of New York to brand Blue Comet. In the early 1930s, Regal had licensed the use of Dobro resonators. When National moved from California to Chicago, Regal acquired the rights to manufacture Dobro instruments. That made Regal become another producer of "house brand" guitars before World War II.
It may designate instruments of 15 to 22 bells built before 1940 as "historical carillons". [5] Its member organizations – including for example The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America – also define a carillon with those restrictions. [6] This list contains only carillons that meet the definition outlined by these organizations.
The instruments were already unique before Lloyd Loar came to work for Gibson. However, it is the Loar-designed instruments that became especially desirable. First made famous by Bill Monroe, Loar's signed mandolins today can cost as much as $200,000. The L-5 guitar owned by Maybelle Carter, which was made after he left Gibson, sold for ...