Back مندولا Arabic Mandola Catalan Mandola Czech Mandola Danish Mandola German Mandolo Esperanto Mandola Spanish Mandola Basque מנדולה HE Mandola ID
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| Other names | Tenor mandolin, Alto mandola, Alto mandolin, Mandoliola, Liola |
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| Classification | String instrument (plucked) |
| Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 321.322 (Composite chordophone) |
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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 (C3-G3-D4-A4), a fifth lower than a mandolin.[1] The mandola, though now rarer, is an ancestor of the mandolin. (The word mandolin means little mandola.)
- ^ Gibson Co. 1930 - 1931 Catalogue Archived 2013-07-17 at the Wayback Machine