mandoline

Also known as Brescian mandolin, Cremonese mandolin, flat-backed mandolin, Genoese mandolin, Lombardian mandolin, Milanese mandolin, Florentine mandolin, Tuscan mandolin

instrument de musique à cordes pincées originaire d'Italie

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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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Within Vinony's link graph, mandoline is referenced by 6,188 other articles, and connects out to octave mandolin, Giuseppe Verdi and string instrument.

It sits within the topics American musical instruments, Baroque instruments and Bashkir musical instruments.

Its subject is documented across 78 Wikipedia language editions.

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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Country: Sri Lanka
Image: Mandolin1.jpg

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Commons category: Mandolins
topic's main category: Category:Mandolins
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 321.321-6
Commons gallery: Mandolin
used by: mandolinist
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4

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La mandoline est un instrument de musique à cordes pincées originaire d'Italie. Petit luth à manche court utilisé en musique classique, folklorique ou traditionnelle, elle est surtout répandue dans les pays méditerranéens. Elle est connue, par exemple, comme l'instrument d'accompagnement privilégié de la chanson napolitaine.

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