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  2. Mandolin playing traditions worldwide - Wikipedia

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    The country had what may be its first Mandolin festival in June 2015, and has at least one Mandolin Orchestra. [ 100 ] [ 101 ] One professional musician to use the mandolin is Sumru Ağıryürüyen who is known for singing and playing many styles of music including world music , Klezmer , Turkish folk, Balkan folk, blues, jazz, krautrock ...

  3. History of the mandolin - Wikipedia

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    When the word "mandolin" is said in the 21st century, it usually refers to an instrument with 8 strings tuned in fifths, such as the Neapolitan mandolin or the American bluegrass mandolin. It is also commonly thought that mandolino is a diminutive of mandola, and that therefore the mandolino was a smaller development of the mandola.

  4. Mandolins in North America - Wikipedia

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    Mandolin awareness in the United States blossomed in the 1880s, as the instrument became part of a fad that continued into the mid-1920s. [14] [15] According to Clarence L. Partee a publisher in the BMG movement (banjo, mandolin and guitar), the first mandolin made in the United States was made in 1883 or 1884 by Joseph Bohmann, who was an established maker of violins in Chicago. [16]

  5. Mandolin - Wikipedia

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    A mandolin (Italian: mandolino, pronounced [mandoˈliːno]; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick.

  6. Bluegrass mandolin - Wikipedia

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    Most bluegrass mandolin players choose one of two styles. Both have flat or nearly flat backs and arched tops. The so-called a-style mandolin has a teardrop-shaped body; the f-style mandolin is more stylized, with a spiraled wooden cone on the upper side and a couple of points on the lower side.

  7. Regal Musical Instrument Company - Wikipedia

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    The Regal Musical Instrument Company is a former US musical instruments company and current brand owned by Saga Musical Instruments.Regal was one of the largest manufacturers in the 1930s and became known for a wide range of resonator stringed instruments, including guitars, mandolins, and ukuleles.

  8. Octave mandolin - Wikipedia

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    The scale length of the octave mandolin is longer than that of the mandolin, and varies more widely, from 19 inches (480 mm) to 24 inches (610 mm), with 21 inches (530 mm) being typical. The internal bracing is similar to the mandolin and mandola, with a single transverse brace on the top just below the oval sound hole.

  9. Domra - Wikipedia

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    Balalaika, Mandolin The domra (Cyrillic: до́мра, [ˈdɔmrɑ] ) is a long-necked Belarusian , Russian , and Ukrainian folk string instrument of the lute family with a round body and three or four metal strings.