mandolin• Try comparing a pluckednote on a violin and on a mandolin and you will certainly notice the difference.• A young fellowstrummed on a mandolin and a woman sang a Hebrewsong.• This can be done with the slicer blade of a food processor or a mandolin.• They had no mandolin but Ollie's guitar would do.• Brown learned to play guitar, violin, harmonica, piano, mandolin, viola and drums.• Yet the solomandolinenjoyed a now-forgotten renaissance between about 1885 and 1920.• Gish died in 1993, but the mandolin is still with us.• And since the mandolin has a different tuning to the guitar, it gives you a different chordvoicing to everybody else.
Originmandolin
(1700-1800)Italianmandolina, from mandola“large type of mandolin”, from Frenchmandore