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Mandola
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This article is about the mandolin with the same open string pitches as a viola. For the instrument preceding the mandolin, see mandore (instrument). For other uses, see Mandola (disambiguation).
The mandola (US and Canada) or tenor mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola (C3-G3-D4-A4), a fifth lower than a mandolin.[1] The mandola, though now rarer, is an ancestor of the mandolin. (The word mandolin means little mandola.)
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Other names | Tenor mandolin, Alto mandola, Alto mandolin, Mandoliola, Liola |
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Classification | String instrument (plucked) |
Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 321.322 (Composite chordophone) |
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C3-D6 or E6 | |
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