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Mandolins

Scope note

Family of plucked lutelike chordophones with a fingerboard, pegbox, and rounded body, which is either carved from a single block of wood merging smoothly into the neck and pegbox, or is built up in a lutelike construction. NGDMI

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300042135

Term used for

mandolines

Equivalent Terms used

mandolin

Created

12yrs ago

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