Mandolins in a sentence

Flatback render Flatback mandolins use a thin sheet of wood with bracing for the back, as a guitar uses, rather than the bowl of the bowlback or the arched back of the carved mandolins.

Greatly preferred for formal performance and recording are flat-topped "Irish-style" mandolins (reminiscent of the WWI-era Martin Army-Navy mandolin) and carved (arch) top mandolins with oval soundholes, such as the Gibson A-style of the 1920s.

Some rock musicians today use mandolins, often single-stringed electric models rather than double-stringed acoustic mandolins.

Vinaccia First metal-string mandolins render The first evidence of modern metal-string mandolins is from literature regarding popular Italian players who travelled through Europe teaching and giving concerts.

Other creations include lap steel guitars, acoustic and electric banjos, mandolins, classical acoustic guitars, classical electric and electric bass, and electric violins.

The song’s composer M. M. Keeravani used duffs, an Indian skin drum, for the main beats, adding in mandolins for the melody.

We start the year off with mandolins, Memphis soul, Barry McGuire, and much much more!

I learned so much watching the Ken Burns’ documentary, particularly how dirt poor some of the singers were and how the isolation of the Tennessee and Kentucky mountain homes brought families together around guitars, mandolins, fiddles and banjos.

In addition to donating 150 instruments, including guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, violins, drums and portable keyboards, Sun Life has also created a series of videos to assist with the use, care and enjoyment of the instruments.

Bowlback mandolins (also known as roundbacks), are used worldwide.

Brescian Mandolin Brescian mandolins that have survived in museums have four gut strings instead of six. citation The mandolin was tuned in fifths, like the Neapolitan mandolin.

Calace, Embergher and others Other luthiers who built mandolins included Raffaele Calace (1863 onwards) in Naples, Luigi Embergher The Embergher mandolin, Ralf Leenen and Barry Pratt, 2004.

Clearly, Lyon & Healy was making fretted string instruments in the 1880s, with Washburn (guitars, mandolins, banjos, and zithers) as their premier line.

France Prior to the Golden Age of Mandolins, France had a history with the mandolin, with mandolinists playing in Paris until the Napoleonic Wars.

History In the early days of jug band music, guitar and mandolins were sometimes made from the necks of discarded guitars fastened to large gourds.

Japan Instruments of the mandolin family are popular in Japan, particularly Neapolitan (round-back) style instruments, and Roman-Embergher style mandolins are still being made there.

Many of the arias include parts for solo instruments—recorders, oboes, violas d'amore, and mandolins—that showcased the range of talents of the girls.

The expansion of mandolin use continued after World War II through the late 1960s, and Japan still maintains a strong classical music tradition using mandolins, with active orchestras and university music programs.

These mandolins can have four or five individual or double courses of strings.