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MANDOLINE [7 records]

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Record 1 2024-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • String Instruments
CONT

The electric mandolin is an instrument tuned and played as the mandolin and amplified in similar fashion to an electric guitar.

Key term(s)
  • electric mandoline

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à cordes

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • String Instruments
CONT

The mandolin appears to have descended from the medieval gittern in Italy, where it took two forms. One was the Milanese or Lombardian mandolin ... with six double courses of strings tuned in thirds and fourths. The other was the Neapolitan mandolin ... with four double courses tuned in fifths as in the modern mandolin. The Milanese mandolin fell into disuse into in the late nineteenth century, and the Neapolitan mandolin ultimately prevailed.

Key term(s)
  • Milanese mandoline
  • Lombardian mandoline

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
CONT

La mandoline est un petit instrument en forme de poire et à fond bombé. [...] la mandoline milanaise se caractérise par six chœurs de cordes doubles qui sont pincés avec les doigts.

Spanish

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Record 3 2024-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • String Instruments
DEF

A musical instrument of the lute family typically having a rounded back and from eight to twelve metal strings set in pairs, usually played with a plectrum.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
DEF

Instrument de la famille du luth, à cordes pincées et à manche court, dont la caisse de résonance possède un fond bombé, et dont on joue généralement avec une plume ou un plectre d'écaille ou d'ivoire.

Spanish

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Record 4 2024-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • String Instruments
CONT

Related to the lute, the mandolin is a small stringed instrument constructed of wood. Its eight wire strings are tuned in pairs to the same notes as those of a violin. The distinctive tremolo sound of the mandolin is created by quick movements of the plectrum (pick) across the four courses, or pairs, of strings. Although the 18th-century instrument was built in several varieties in different Italian towns, the mandolins built in Naples eventually became the representative type now known as the Neapolitan mandolin. The ribbed, pear-shaped body of the Neapolitan mandolin is attached to a neck containing a fingerboard, usually with 17 frets. The strings are hitched to the bottom of the instrument's body, then pass over a bridge and are tuned at the top of the neck.

CONT

The mandolin appears to have descended from the medieval gittern in Italy, where it took two forms. One was the Milanese or Lombardian mandolin ... with six double courses of strings tuned in thirds and fourths. The other was the Neapolitan mandolin ... with four double courses tuned in fifths as in the modern mandolin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
CONT

La mandoline napolitaine apparaît vers la fin du XVIIIe [dix-huitième] siècle. [...] Elle comporte quatre chœurs de cordes métalliques. Elles sont grattées au moyen d'un plectre.

Spanish

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Record 5 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

mandolin: an item in the "Musical Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Communication" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

mandoline : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement de musique» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour la communication».

Spanish

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Record 6 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

mandoline slicer: an item in the "Food Processing and Preparation Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Materials" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

mandoline de cuisine : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement de transformation et de préparation des aliments» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour le traitement des matières».

Spanish

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Record 7 1991-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Restaurant Equipment
CONT

A mandoline is used to slice vegetables into plain or waffled disks of varied thicknesses or into julienne strips. [The Well-Equipped Kitchen, p. 10].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement (Restaurants)
DEF

Outil fait d'acier inoxydable composé de lames tranchantes unies ou cannelées. Utilisée pour tailler les pommes frites, gaufrettes, pailles, etc. ainsi que pour émincer les légumes.

Spanish

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