Re: Ever wonder?
Are you talking about the man-duh-lin? (We're tight with the vowels up here, but more generous with consonants than in the South.) Still, some rural Canadians play GEE-tars, as opposed to the gitTARs that others play.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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