The mandolin

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Data:
• Body shape: Lute or pear
• Frets: Fixed chromatic
• Strings: 8
• Courses: 4 ( 2 - 2 - 2 - 2)
• Scale: 320 - 365 mm

The original mandolin was a small lute with gut strings, very different from the modern instrument bearing the same name.

The modern mandolin comes in a bewildering variety of shapes, evolved from different historical instruments, but the basics are the same: a small (332-365 mm scale length) instrument with eight metal strings. It's usually tuned GDAE like a violin, but there are many alternative tunings as well.

Content

• The A style mandolin
• Archtop mandolins
• Bowlback mandolins
• The Celtic mandolin
• Electric mandolin
• F style mandolin
• Flattop mandolins
• The French mandolin
• Harp mandolin
• The lyre mandolin
• Mandolin shapes
• The mandolinetto (mandolin-guitar)
• Mandriola (twelve-string mandolin)
• The Neapolitan mandolin
• The Portuguese mandolin
• The resonator mandolin
• The Roman mandolin
• The ten-string mandolin
• The travelling mandolin
• Mandolin tunings

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