mandolin

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With a high gloss lacquer finish and elegant curves, this mandolin is a class act.

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  1. noun A small lutelike instrument with a typically pear-shaped body and a straight fretted neck, having usually four sets of paired strings tuned in unison or octaves.

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  • Fiddle tunes fit well on the mandolin, in most cases, for the obvious reason that the mandolin is tuned like a fiddle. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • My wife like it because the mandolin is not a babe magnet. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • In summary: richer and mellower than the mandolin, and more defined and trebly than the —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • * It looks like a classic mandolin, and the finish is beautiful. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • To call one of these things a mandolin is really more than I can bear. —  Mandolin Cafe News
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  1. French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, lute, from French mandore, from Late Latin pandūra, three-string lute, from Greek pandoura.
 

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/ˈmændoʊklɪn/
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