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The chart shows mandolinos as predecessors to the lines of mandolins, and possible points-of-blending of instrument features. [33] In one example on Timmerman's chart, makers of the mandolino (with bridge glued to the soundboard) blended it with the chittara battuta which had a floating bridge. The floating bridge was held to the soundboard by ...
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 has a history on Tobago and Trinidad as the bandolin, dating back before World War I. [99] It was a small instrument, approximately 20 x 40 centimeters, strung with 8 strings in four courses of two each. [99] Before the war, it was commonly a round-backed instrument, made of strips of wood. [99] The flat-backed version appeared ...
A resonator mandolin or "resophonic mandolin" is a mandolin whose sound is produced by one or more metal cones (resonators) instead of the customary wooden soundboard (mandolin top/face). Historic brands include Dobro and National.
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 ...
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.
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The scale length of the octave mandolin is longer than that of the mandolin, and varies more widely, from 19 inches (480 mm) to 24 inches (610 mm), with 21 inches (530 mm) being typical. The internal bracing is similar to the mandolin and mandola, with a single transverse brace on the top just below the oval sound hole.