Word Finder - mandolin

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A stringed instrument and a member of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back

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A kitchen tool used for slicing vegetables (usually spelled mandoline)

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An RAF World War II code name for patrols to attack enemy railway transport and other ground targets

Richard plays banjo, bass, mandolin, guitar or anything he can get a sound out of.

It was a child's guitar, like a Chinese mandolin, really.

They fuse layers of sampled loops and rock guitars with an array of acoustic instruments including harmonica, mandolin and bowed double bass.

He also played some good mandolin including a Monroe style mandolin blues.

Stephen Donnelly replaces Brian Thompson on lead guitar and also adds another mandolin to the bands line-up.

And, like Bill Monroe, he made the mandolin the star of the show, with a style which was all his own.

Another type of flat back is guitar shaped and then there is the solid bodied electric mandolin.

He was, in turn, replaced by Frank Wakefield, another great bluegrass mandolin master.

Various friends offering everything from fiddle and percussion to wah wah mandolin and trombone join them.

There is no need to read conventional music notation as all the music is written in easy-to-read mandolin tablature.

In this way, although the ancient ballads are not forgotten, new words are also fitted to the plaintive folk-tunes (fados) which every farm-hand knows and sings, accompanied sometimes by a rude clarinet or bagpipes, but more frequently by the so-called Portuguese guitar - an instrument which resembles a mandolin rather than the guitars of Italy and Spain.

A Mandolin is normally rested in the lap and for a right-handed player, the fretboard and tuner point out to the left.

The major types of Mandolin are the Neapolitan bowl back (' tater bug ') and the flat back.

Stringed instruments include orchestra instruments like the violin, cello, viola, and string bass, as well as the banjo, harp, and mandolin.

It has been around since the fourteenth century when it was used to transcribe music for instruments like the lute which is a smaller stringed instrument somewhat similar to a mandolin.

Sometimes musicians will call me if they have a gig, and I'll come sit in with them on mandolin, banjo, guitar, bass, ukulele, whatever - anything with strings.

Bluegrass relies upon stringed instruments like the banjo, upright bass and mandolin, but guitars are crucial for maintaining perfectly timed rhythm.

This tool can also be used to look up chords for banjo, mandolin or bass, and the related Scalerator can be used to look up how to play scales.

Similar systems are in place for other instruments, including the bass, ukulele, mandolin, banjo, and even free reed aerophones like the harmonica.

Glenn Frey (guitar and keyboard), Bernie Leadon (guitar, mandolin and banjo) and Randy Meisner (bassist) had been playing as a band with Linda Ronstadt until they met up with drummer Don Henley and decided to form their own band in 1971.

Louis de Bernières ' Captain Corelli's Mandolin became a phenomenal bestseller, largely due to word-of-mouth recommendations.

Slice the flesh wafer-thin, using a mandolin or by hand.

If you do not have a mandolin, you can prepare the vegetables by hand.

Four Hand Reel are Julian Gurr (mandolin, octave mandolin) and Andy Stone (guitar, vocals ).