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| | Data:- Body shape: Lute
- Top: Flat
- Back: Bowl
- Frets: Tied
- Strings: 4
- Courses: 4 ( 1 - 1 - 1 - 1)
A mandolin with a small bowlback body and four single gut (or nylon) strings. The Cremonese mandolin is known from as far back as 1700 and seems to be the first mandolin type to use the four fifths tuned course configuration common to modern mandolins.
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