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| | Data:- Body shape: Lute - wide
- Top: Flat
- Back: Bowl
- Bridge: Fixed
- Frets: Tied
- Strings: 12 (in pairs), 10 (in pairs), 6 (single) or 5 (single)
- Courses: 5 or 6 ( 1 or (usually) 2 - 1 or (usually) 2 - 1 or (usually) 2 - 1 or (usually) 2 - 1 or (usually) 2 - 1 or (usually) 2)
- Scale: 300 - 300 mm
There were a number of different instruments called mandolin during the 17th and early 18th Century. The French mandolin first appeared during that period and it seems every Italian city had its own unique variant of the "proper" mandolin.
But the one mostly associated with the period (and the one Antonio Vivaldi wrote his mandolin works for) is the Lombardic mandolin (aka mando-lute), a small bowlback wide and shallow bodied lute with five or six double courses, usually tuned an octave higher than a modern guitar.
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