Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . MANDOLINE, BEECHWOOD. ! lilll. cm S K M. (M»il9.(,6.) , FECIT. J-64 PANDURINA. BEECHWOOD. No. 219—1866. [pHIS musical instrument, somewhat resembling a lute in shape, is*? Italian and was made about the middle of the sixteenth century. Thematerial is beechwood. Various instruments of this kind were in common use in Europeduring the middle ages, especially in Italy; and were known by the namesalso of mandova, mandorina, and mandolino. The mandora
Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . MANDOLINE, BEECHWOOD. ! lilll. cm S K M. (M»il9.(,6.) , FECIT. J-64 PANDURINA. BEECHWOOD. No. 219—1866. [pHIS musical instrument, somewhat resembling a lute in shape, is*? Italian and was made about the middle of the sixteenth century. Thematerial is beechwood. Various instruments of this kind were in common use in Europeduring the middle ages, especially in Italy; and were known by the namesalso of mandova, mandorina, and mandolino. The mandora had usuallyfor each tone two strings, catgut and wire ; and there were eight pairs ofthem. The mandorina had four wire strings and resembled a diminutivelute, but its finger-board had metal frets, and the strings were fastened tolittle ivory pins at the end of the body instead of being looped throughholes in the bridge. It differed from the pandurina chiefly in having arounder and deeper body, and in having the tuning-pegs placed at the backof the head. The pandurina had a sort of scroll, with the tuning-pegsplaced sideways as in the old English cither. Th
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