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Also known as Brescian mandolin, Cremonese mandolin, flat-backed mandolin, Genoese mandolin, Lombardian mandolin, Milanese mandolin, Florentine mandolin, Tuscan mandolin
A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of eight strings. A variety of string types are used, with steel strings being the most common and usually the least expensive. The courses are typically tuned in an interval of perfect fifths, with the same tuning as a violin (G3, D4, A4, E5). Also, like the violin, it is the soprano member of a family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello and mandobass.
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A mandolin is a stringed instrument from the lute family that is typically plucked with a pick and has eight strings arranged in four doubled pairs, usually tuned like a violin. It matters as the soprano member of a family of related instruments and is widely used in music because of its distinctive bright sound and relatively accessible construction with affordable steel strings.
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Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Mandolin
- Instrument.image
- Mandolin MET DP169023 (2).jpg
- Instrument.image_capt
- Neapolitan mandolin
- Instrument.background
- string
- Instrument.classification
- String instrument Plucked string instrument
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 321.321-6 (Neapolitan) or 321.322-6 (flat-backed)
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Chordophone with permanently attached resonator and neck, sounded by a plectrum
- Instrument.developed
- Mid-18th century from the mandolino
- Instrument.timbre
- varies with the type: spruce carved-top, bright flatback, warm or mellow
- Instrument.decay
- fast
- Instrument.range
- 130px|center(a regularly tuned mandolin with 14 frets to body)
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