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mandolin

Plucked string instrument which flourished 1600–1800. It has four to six pairs of strings (courses) and is tuned like a violin. The fingerboard is fretted to regulate intonation. It takes its name from its almond-shaped body (Italian mandorla ‘almond’). Vivaldi composed two concertos for the mandolin in about 1736.

The Neapolitan mandolin, a different instrument which appeared about 1750, is played with a plectrum and has metal strings. Composers for the Neapolitan mandolin include Beethoven, Hummel, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky in Agon (1955–57).



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He had been in Spain, and there had indulged in serenades and had made friends with a Spanish girl who played the mandolin.
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So when Langwidere sat in her easy chair and played soft melodies upon her mandolin, her form was mirrored hundreds of times, in walls and ceiling and floor, and whichever way the lady turned her head she could see and admire her own features.
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On a table by her side lay a mandolin and an apple.
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