![]() ![]() ![]() From the Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs, mandolins proliferated across the South. In 1900, a company called Lyon & Healy boasted 'At any time you can find in our factory upwards of 10,000 mandolins in various stages of construction'. The Rage of the New Centuryīy the turn of the century, mandolin ensembles were touring the vaudeville circuit, and mandolin orchestras were forming in schools and colleges. ![]() In 1897, Montgomery Ward's catalog marveled at the 'phenomenal growth in our Mandolin trade'. The mandolin was even among the first recorded instruments on Edison cylinders. A marked increase in Italian immigration in the 1880s sparked a fad for the bowl-backed Neopolitan instrument that spread across the land. It was in vogue in the 1850s, when it shared the parlor with zithers, mandolas, ukuleles, and other novelties designed to amuse the increasingly leisured middle class. The mandolin entered the mainstream of popular American culture during the first epoch of substantial immigration from eastern and southern Europe, a period of prosperity and vulgarity, when things exotic and foreign dominated popular taste. The smaller version of the traditional mandola was called mandolina by the Italians. The Arabs called it Dambura, the Latins Mandora, the Italians, Mandola. The Assyrians called this new instrument a Pandura, which described its shape. The miniature lute was probably contrived to fill out the scale of 16th century lute ensembles. In a gallery in Washington, a painting by Agnelo Gaddi (1369- 1396) depicts an angel playing a miniature lute called the mandora. The oud found its way into Spain during the Moorish conquest of Spain (711- 1492), to Venice through coastal trade, and to Europe through returning Crusaders (around 1099). ![]() 'Oud' is the Arabic name for wood, and the oud is a wooden lute. The oud remains in use today, virtually unchanged, in the music of the Near East, particularly in Armenia and Egypt. The strings were sometimes plucked by using hard objects or plectrums rather than the fingers as the plectrums or picks produced a louder, sharper, sound than the fingers.īy the Seventh Century AD a folk lute called the oud was in use. Changes in pitch were made by pressing the strings down onto the neck of the instrument. Lute-like chordophones appear as early as 2000 BC in Mesopotamia. Later, gourds were attached to the bow to act as resonators. An increase in volume was first gained by holding the bow in the mouth. They were played by plucking the string with the fingers, and later by tapping the string with a stick. This musical bow represents the first stringed instruments man invented. These paintings include one of a man with what appears to be a simple one-stringed instrument that is being played with a bow. As a descendent of the lute, the mandolin reaches back to some of the earliest musical instruments.ĭeep in the grottos of France are beautiful cave paintings made between 15,000 BC and 8500 BC. A lute is a chordophone, an instrument which makes sound by the vibration of strings. The mandolin can be described as a small, short-necked lute with eight strings. This page was compiled by Rob Meador and authored by Dan Beimborn. "Separate your notes, keep your timing right, and let your tones come out." -Bill Monroe ![]()
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