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mandolins


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Art & Architecture Thesaurus

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mandolins

Details

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.

Variations

mandolin

mandolines

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