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The octave mandolin (US and Canada) or octave mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted string instrument with four pairs of strings tuned in fifths, G−D−A−E (low to high). It is larger than the mandola , but smaller than the mandocello and its construction is similar to other instruments in the mandolin family.
The size of these is described by a "conventional" fraction that has no mathematical significance. For example, a 7/8 violin has a scale of about 317 mm, a 3/4-size instrument a scale of 307 mm, a half-size one 287 mm, and a quarter-size one 267 mm. 1/8, 1/10, 1/16 and 1/32 and even 1/64 violins also exist, becoming progressively smaller, but ...
The instrument measures 33.5 inches long, 10 5/8 inches wide at lower end, 3 1/8 deep at the end block. It has a scale of 21 3/8 inches. [3] [4]Owners of octophones have said that the instrument is made with birch neck, neck block, sides and back and a top made of spruce.
A guitar-shaped mandolin, or mandolin neck on ukulele body. Mandolin, Octave: 8 strings 4 courses. Standard/common: G 2 G 2 •D 3 D 3 •A 3 A 3 •E 4 E 4. Alternate: Irish Bouzouki: G 2 G 2 •D 3 D 3 •A 3 A 3 •D 4 D 4. Tenor Mandolin, Irish Bouzouki, Octave mandola (Europe) Pitched 1 octave below the mandolin. Mandolin, piccolo: 8 ...
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The mandola (US and Canada) or tenor mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted, stringed musical instrument.It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola (C 3-G 3-D 4-A 4), a fifth lower than a mandolin. [1]
Irish bouzouki (Octave mandolin) Italy: Calabrian Lira (Calabria) Chitarra battente ("knocking guitar") Chitarrone; Liuto cantabile (Naples) Mandolin (Mandolin family)
Also common are tuning one octave below standard violin tuning, G 2 −D 3 −A 3 −E 4, which is typical of the tenor banjo in Irish folk music or "octave mandolin," and the so-called "Chicago tuning", D 3 −G 3 −B 3 −E 4, the same as the top four strings of a standard guitar, or the "baritone ukulele," a slightly smaller instrument ...