MANDOLIN - A POPULAR LUTE

               THE  STRING  INSTRUMENT
  

So friends, I think most of you know about the instrument MANDOLIN. But still I want to share some information which I know about this instrument........

Mandolin is a musical instrument from lute family . Lutes are the instruments which produce sound by vibration of the stings . As this instrument is a descendent of the lute , the mandolin reaches back to some of the earliest musical instruments .

FEW TYPES OF MANDOLIN :

1. Genuese  Mandolin

1. Genuese Mandolin
2. Cremona Mandolin
3. Mandolin Neapolitan
4. Mandolin (modern)
5. Mandocello
6. A-style Mandolin
7. Mandolin Gelas
8. Mandolin Banjo
9. Lyre Mandolin or Harp Mandolin

2. Cremona Mandolin

4. Mandolin (modern)

7. Mandolin  Gelas

7. Mandolin Gelas - The part where
sound produces

                7. Mandolin Gelas

9. Lyre Mandolin                                              

So , let me tell you something more about mandolin . Normally people find only 2 variations in the original form -the acoustic and the electric . But I want to tell you all that Mandolin in its original form is typically an acoustic stringed instrument which is about 60 cm which means 2ft long with deeply vaulted ribs and a table slanted downward at the lower end . It has a neck-cum-peg head attached to a hollow oval shaped sound box . It has 4 pairs of loop-ended double rib fastened metal strings secured to hooks on the body on one end, which passes across a low bridge (on the sound box) and a nut (on the finger board) to the pegs inserted into a rectangular peg-box