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  2. Mandolin - Wikipedia

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    Travelling mandolin virtuosi like Carlo Curti, Giuseppe Pettine, Raffaele Calace and Silvio Ranieri contributed to the mandolin becoming a "fad" instrument in the early 20th century. [56] This "mandolin craze" was fading by the 1930s, but just as this practice was falling into disuse, the mandolin found a new niche in American country , old ...

  3. Scale length (string instruments) - Wikipedia

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    The size of these is described by a "conventional" fraction that has no mathematical significance. For example, a 7/8 violin has a scale of about 317 mm, a 3/4-size instrument a scale of 307 mm, a half-size one 287 mm, and a quarter-size one 267 mm. 1/8, 1/10, 1/16 and 1/32 and even 1/64 violins also exist, becoming progressively smaller, but ...

  4. Octave mandolin - Wikipedia

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    The octave mandolin (US and Canada) or octave mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted string instrument with four pairs of strings tuned in fifths, G−D−A−E (low to high). It is larger than the mandola , but smaller than the mandocello and its construction is similar to other instruments in the mandolin family.

  5. Mandolin-banjo - Wikipedia

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    Two styles of mandolin-banjo, showing a large and small head, with a full size, four-string banjo (bottom). L-R - Banjo-mandolin, standard mandolin, 3-course mandolin, Tenor mandola. The mandolin-banjo is a hybrid instrument, combining a banjo body with the neck and tuning of a mandolin. It is a soprano banjo. [1]

  6. Mandola - Wikipedia

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    The mandola (US and Canada) or tenor mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola (C 3-G 3-D 4-A 4), a fifth lower than a mandolin. [1] The mandola, though now rarer, is an ancestor of ...

  7. Mandolin playing traditions worldwide - Wikipedia

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    In the early 20th century the mandolin was popular in the Wandervogel movement (groups of young men and women, hiking and camping, singing and playing instruments), due to the instrument's small size. [25] The mandolin became increasingly popular in contemporary music during the 20th century.