The instruments

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The mando family

When I opened this site I wanted it to be about all the different kinds of mandolins and related isntruments, not just the most common one(s). I had absolutely no idea how big a topic that was!

I guess I'll never ever manage to finish the job, but even today I think it's the most complete and exact (in relative terms) presentation of the mando family on the internet. You can scroll down to the bottom of this page for a list of the sub-sections here, but if I were you I'd rather go straight to either

• Mando A-Z (an alphabetical list of various names used for different mandos) or:
• The mandolin family (a desperate attempt to create a somewhat systematic overview of the different instruments).

Other pages

• Tuning comparasion table (compare the tunings for a number of common stringed isntruments)

Content

• Mandos A-Z
• The mandolin family
• Lutes, citterns, guitars, mandolas - what's the difference?
• Instrument info
• Tuning comparasion table
• The alto mandola
• Mandolin-related banjos
• The banjola
• The baroque mandolin
• Citterns
• The classical mandola
• The classical mandolin
• The Cremonese mandolin
• Cumbus
• The Genovese mandolin
• Guitars
• The Irish bouzouki
• The Irish cittern
• The Lombardic mandolin
• Lutes
• The mandobass
• The mandocello
• Mandolas
• The mandolin
• The medieval mandola
• The Milanese mandolin
• The piccolo mandolin
• The renaissance mandola
• The tenor (octave) mandola
• The Waldzither
• The yueqin
• Zither instruments

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