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

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

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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
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