My mother once asked me if I was still playing that damn banjo. I have given up telling her it's called a mandolin.
My mother once asked me if I was still playing that damn banjo. I have given up telling her it's called a mandolin.
John Hamlett
www.hamlettinstruments.com
Actually it's "mandolino" in Italian.
man - do - LEE - no
https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&...n&op=translate
Well mando - obviously "hand or with the hand" in Latin, implying the right hand plectrum as opposed to a bowed instrument ?
I wonder if all names for a Fretted lute tuned in 5ths are from the Latin root? Lute, Flute, oh dear.....
the ola- olin - olino stuff, haven't a clue.
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"Mean Old Timer, He's got grey hair, Mean Old Timer he just don't care
Got no compassion, thinks its a sin
All he does is sit around an play the Mandolin"
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