Mandolone of six paired strings ( and two sympathetic strings) attributed to the Neapolitan school of the eighttenth century. It has survived to the present in a perfect state of conservation.
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The family of mandolas, with its various components, including the mandolin and the mandola in the true sense of the word, the tenor mandolin or mandoloncello, and the mandolone, directly derived from the lute. The main characteristics that differentiate the instruments of this lute family consist in: the more swollen belly, the table tilted back at an obtuse angle opposite the bridge, the shorter neck and the position of the pegs that are often inserted from the back instead of from the two sides. Another fundamental element differentiating mandolas and lutes is to be sought in the way they are played: whereas the lute was plucked with the fingertips, the mandola was played with the plectrum, with a characteristic progression of notes called tremolo.
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