The Mandolin

Junior21

· 05 Aug 2022

The Mandolin

#history The mandolin belongs to the group of instruments called “four double orders”. This instrument has undergone many modifications since the first version that emerged in the 1700s, it really is a variant of the “mandola” that was smaller in size, a simpler design, had four simple orders, and its tuning is the one currently used for the violin.

What is Mandolin?
We are going to start our article today by expanding a little the definition of what the mandolin really is and all the structures that make up this musical instrument.

First of all we know that it is an instrument, belonging to the group of the so-called “four double orders”; this is the designation of plucked string instruments, in which the different vibrations that occur in the strings are those that will produce the sound and which in turn is amplified by the soundboard, precisely this is what the technical meaning of mandolin encompasses.

So we can say that the Mandolin is a musical instrument, that it contains a soundboard, that it can be concave and, it can also be flat, all this will depend on the way in which it is built and/or the tastes of the person who is going to play it as well, it has a fingerboard that usually has 17 to 21 frets, for a Italian mandolin.