Instrumentos: Bandolim
"A mandolin is a small, stringed musical instrument which is plucked, strummed or a combination of both. It is descended from the mandora. It normally has eight metal strings in four pairs (courses) that are plucked with a plectrum. Four-string (one string per course), twelve-string (three strings per course), and sixteen-string (four string per course) variants also exist. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundtable (i.e. face), or one that is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes that are open and not latticed.
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Mandolins evolved from the lute family in Italy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the deep bowled mandolin produced particularly in Naples became a common type in the nineteenth century. The original instrument was the mandore (mandorla is "almond" in Italian, describing the instrument's body shape) and evolved in the fourteenth century from the lute. As time passed and the instrument spread around Europe, it took on many names and various structural characteristics (...)"
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