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	Mandola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The instrument is tuned in fifths, to the pitches of the viola (C-G-D-A low-to-high), a fifth lower than a mandolin; the courses are tuned in unison rather than in octaves.
		Like the guitar, the mandola is a poorly sustaining instrument — a note cannot be sustained for an arbitrary time as with the viola, although the technique known as tremolo (tremolando), a rapid alternation of the plectrum on a single pair of strings, allows the approximation of a long-sustained note.
		Mandolas are not uncommon in folk music and sometimes used in Irish traditional music, although far less often, in the latter case, than the octave mandola, Irish bouzouki, and modern cittern.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mandola (285 words)

	Mandola Fretboard and Notes (tenor and octave)
		The octave note is the same note as the open string but a whole set of notes higher in pitch.
		The mandola family can be tuned easily by getting the bottom string or course in tune and then tuning each higher course to the previous string at the 7th fret - they should sound the same.
		Octave tuning a mandola is to tune the mandola a whole octave below the standard mandolin tuning.
	www.banjolin.co.uk /mandola/fretboard.htm (438 words)

	The Irish cittern
		Generally "octave mandolin is simply a different name for the tenor mandola with a relatively short neck and eight strings tuned in fifths.
		To add to the confusion there's also the tenor mandola (or octave mandolin or octave mandola) that evolved in parallel and is very similar to the Irish bouzouki/cittern.
		Octave mandolin/octave mandola/tenor mandola is a long-necked mandola intended to be tuned GDAE one octave lower than a mandolin.
	www.mandolin-player.com /instruments/irish-cittern (811 words)

	Mandola vs Octave Mandolin
		Hence the tuning on the Octave is exactly one octave lower than mandolin: G D A E. The tuning on the Mandola is one fourth lower than mandolin: C G D A. Both are still tuned in fifths...so, you're given the same intervals as the mandolin or violin family.
		A mandola should be the same tuning as the tenor: C G D A You might have been playing another type of mandolin family instrument...such as the octave mandolin...
		I understand that a Mandola and the Octave mandolin are the same instrument, the Mandocello also has the tuning I want but in various pictures it is difficult to judge the compartive sizes.
	www.folkofthewood.com /page2401.htm (1664 words)

	The Octave Mandolin Page- by Bryan Owens
		The octave mandolin has been called many different names by different people, such as the Irish bouzouki (or just 'bouzouki'), mandola, and octave mandola, to name a few.
		The particular octave mandolin used by Bryan Owens that is featured on 'Bryan's Bizaar' is an 'OP' model that was made by Davy Stuart, a luthier based in Christchurch, New Zealand.
		The mandola would be similar to an equivalent of the viola, which would cover the register between the mandolin and the octave mandolin, and would be commonly tuned as CGDA.
	www.geocities.com /bryansbizaar/octave_mandolin (728 words)

	The Session: Discussions - is it feasable to tune a mandola like irish tenor banjo?
		The "european" mandola has a scale only a little longer than a mandolin, it would require a specific set of strings for that length instrument, and would be tuned like a viola, CGda, as opposed to GDae for the mandolin.
		The "tenor" mandola is tuned the same as the european, but has a longer scale, similar to a short-scale tenor banjo.
		The octave mandola (as it is called) is tuned an octave below the mandolin, and has a longer scale than the tenor.
	www.thesession.org /discussions/display/9210 (1066 words)

	The generic brand Korean-made "Irish" octave mandolin
		There are also "generic brand" Korean-made mandolas and Irish bouzoukis that are virtually identical to the octave mandola except for the scale length.
		The Korean octave mandola is quite a decent low-priced instrument; a good design, made from good wood and built with a very stable production quality.
		No matter what name there is on the peghead, this is a decent beginner/intermediate octave mandola with a solid spruce top, solid maple back and sides, rosewood fingerboard, gloss finish and a slim, playable neck.
	www.mandolin-player.com /buyers-guide/octave-mandola/korean-octave-mandola.html (878 words)

	Mandola Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Strictly speaking, Tenor is superfluous when describing a Mandola, a Mandola is the equivalent of a Viola in the fiddle family.
		However, the mandolin family has an additional instrument to those usually found in the fiddle family, an Octave Mandolin, which is sometimes referred to as an Octave Mandola, and sometimes just as a Mandola.
		The Mandola and the Mandocello are always tuned C-G-D-A, with the Mandocello being an octave lower.
	www.folkalpoint.org.uk /Features/Mandola_man.htm (933 words)

	Bouzouki Page: mandola, bazouki, cittern, octave mandolin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Octave Mandolas (also known as Octave Mandolins in America) are popular because of their suitability for Irish music, being tuned GDAE an octave below a Mandolin.
		The Mandola (or Tenor Mandola) is tuned as a Viola, CGDA
		Generally the mandolas are better at tunes, bouzoukis for accompanying, but this is not a strict rule.
	www.hobgoblin-usa.com /local/bouzoukius.htm (279 words)

	Musica Viva: The Encyclopedia of Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A large mandola intended to be tuned one octave lower than the mandolin, although the term "tenor mandola" is also occasionally used for the smaller alto mandola.
		Neapolitan style tenor mandolas were common in 19th Century mandolin quartet and recently Celtic style "ocatve mandos" have become popular in Irish traditional and folk music.
		Same as guitar tuning but with octave strings on the lower courses.
	www.musicaviva.com /encyclopedia/display.tpl?phrase=tenor-mandola (153 words)

	Octave mandolin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The octave mandolin is an eight-stringed fretted string instrument tuned an octave below the neopolitan mandolin.
		It may have a ribbed bowl-back, a flat or a carved back.
		In Europe, it is known as an octave mandola.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Octave_mandola (78 words)

	The Mandola Page
		The Mandola was a derivation of the Lute without the characteristic right-angle headstock.
		It is sometimes said that the Mandola was originally a simpler 'beginners' Lute.
		A later, smaller mandola was developed and became known as a mandolina, which led to the mandolin.
	www.banjolin.co.uk /mandola (185 words)

	The Session: Discussions - Which to play - bouzouki, cittern, or octave mandola?
		If you have the opportunity to compare, side-by-side, 'zouk, "octave" mandola, cittern, "tenor" mandola, I think you will find that the best toned instrument is the one with the longest strings, all other things being equal, but of course fast fingering for tunes is more energetic.
		Octave does not sound better for tunes, it is a matter of personal preferance, it sounds better if you want a thin banjoey sound.
		I would have gone for a mandola because it would be more manageable, but now I have the zouk I am converted and wouldn't downsize for a wimpy mandola for anything.
	www.thesession.org /discussions/display/9052 (4710 words)

	Mondolas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		CGDA, with an extra octave string added to the bottom two courses to give a rich, full sound when playing chords, but with pairs of strings on the top two courses for melody playing.
		The traditional Mandola is equivalent to the orchestral Viola, tuned CDGA, and is often known as a “tenor” mandola.
		Sometimes known as an “Octave Mandola” but a more technically correct description would be an "Octave Mandolin".
	www.fyldeguitars.com /mandolas.html (271 words)

	Musical instruments
		Bought new in December 2003 from Socodi in Canterbury, a Christmas present from my parents, this is a simple flatback mandola made somewhere in China and resold by one of the big UK music suppliers (Hobgoblin sell pretty much the same thing under their "Blue Moon" brand name).
		You can listen to a clip of me playing this mandola, recorded using a tie-clip microphone as a contact pickup; the recording was multitracked with both parts played on the same instrument.
		I bought this octave mandola second-hand from Hobgoblin in Crawley in October 2004 (at the same time as the bouzouki below).
	offog.org /music/instruments.html (1565 words)

	Dervish discussion board: Octave mandolin?
		Something that's bigger than a mandolin but doesn't have the enormous stretch of a bouzouki or mandola.
		Someone suggested an octave mandolin but that seems to be a very elusive animal in Ireland.
		And they are, of necessity, played in a different manner than a mandolin, since the distance between frets causes a number of things which can be played on the mandolin to be impossible or impractical on its longer necked cousins.
	www.dervish.ie /discus/messages/75/156.html?1113085725 (256 words)

	Cittern Information Sheet \| Dusty Strings Acoustic Music Shop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The four bottom courses are like an octave mandola (the same relationships as a mandolin) and the top three are an open chord.
		The bottom four courses are an octave mandola (or a mandocello).
		A second approach is suggested by historical citterns or by the twelve-string guitar, in which a lighter-gauge string is paired with a heavier to sound the same note an octave apart.
	www.dustystrings.com /shop/cittern_info.shtml (955 words)

	Mandolins
		The family consists of the Mandolin, Mandola, Mandocello, and rarely seen Mandobase, each with the same range and tuning as the comparable violin family instrument.
		With the exception of the Mandolino, all instruments have proportionally long necks and are double strung with 4 courses of metal strings.
		This is a larger version of the Mandola and retains the high-tension stringing of the Mandolin and Mandola but allows much lower parts to be played.
	homepages.nildram.co.uk /~brad-4/Mandolins.htm (644 words)

	Mandolin family
		Mandolin, mandola, mandocello and mandobass, all tuned similarly to their violin family relatives.
		The mandola is tuned a fifth lower than mandolin, CGDA, same as tenor banjo and viola.
		Bouzouki, octave mandolin, octave mandola: The bouzouki was first used in Celtic music in the late 1960s.
	www.sethausten.com /mandos.html (286 words)

	Mandolin Family:TheAcousticMusicCompanyforMandolins
		It is also called by some a tenor mandola (common on the UK), perhaps because of the tenor banjo but it seems to make more sense to name mandolins according to how they relate to the mandolin family, not to banjos.
		The octave mandolin is commonly tuned an octave below the mandolin as its name suggests so why some call it an octave mandola or tenor mandola is a bit of a mystery but very common in the UK.
		The octave mandolin can be tuned the same as the bouzouki but with the shorter neck is much easier to play melodies while still giving a good chord sound.
	www.theacousticmusicco.co.uk /x470.html (1744 words)

	Weber
		This company is one of the few which make both flattop/flatback and archedtop/archedback (Celtic style) mandolins, mandolas and octave mandolins.
		They make them at the highest level of quality and tonality that it is possible to find, and, quite unabashedly, we're proud to offer every model in their line and proud of them for rising from the ashes and creating a superb fretted instrument company.
		It is rumored that people have spending vast fortunes to buy the kind of octave mandolin (tuned one octave lower than a mandolin) that a famous singer-songwriter octave mandolinist uses.
	www.mandoweb.com /Weber.htm (2110 words)

	How to tell a Mandolin, Mandola, Cittern, Bouzouki, Blarge, Tenor Mandolin, Tenor Guitar, Etc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This is another interesting factor- the bass strings are sometimes in octaves, going low to high from the bass side to the treble side (the opposite of a normal 12-string guitar tuning).
		Vintage mandolas are still fairly common (compared to some other instruments) in the market, as they were a band instrument played in the Mandolin Orchestras in the 20's.
		Mandocellos are similar in tuning to the bottom four notes of a long scale cittern- the CGDA strings are in the same octave as the DGDA at the bass of the long-scale cittern.
	home.earthlink.net /~flyinblind/bgmandocompare.htm (1842 words)

	Change In Pitch - Concertina.net Discussion Forums
		I believe an octave mandolin and a mandola are two different species.
		There can be two kinds of mandola in a mandolin orchestra, the tenor mandola (tuned like a viola, a fifth down from a mandolin), and the octave mandola (tuned an octave below a mandolin).
		In Ireland people are unfamiliar with the tenor mandola, but play the octave mandola, usually calling it simply a "mandola", whilst in the U.S. the tenor mandola is the one commonly encounterd, and called "mandola", whilst the more recently introduced Irish-style instrument is called an "octave mandolin".
	www.concertina.net /forums/index.php?showtopic=2175 (1391 words)

	Mandolin Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Next is the Mandola, tuned CGDA, the same as a viola.
		Octave Mandolas and Octave Mandolins are often tuned an octave down from mandolin.
		Available in unison sets (like a mandolin) or octave sets where the lower 2 courses are tuned in octaves (like a 12 string guitar).
	www.folkrevolution.co.uk /strings/mando.html (253 words)

	Musica Viva: The Mandolin Archive
		DADA-tuned mandola (or mandocello or tenor banjo) with GDAE-tuned instrument (mandolin, octave-mandolin, mandolin-banjo or Irish tuned tenor banjo).
		DADA-tuned mandola (or mandocello or tenor banjo) and tenor mandola ("octave mandolin").
		DADA-tuned mandola (or mandocello or tenor banjo) with octave mandolin.
	www.musicaviva.com /mandolin/list.tpl?no=1&composer=anon (415 words)

	Mandola vs octave mandolin vs mandolin
		Already have and octave mandolin, and we won't go into the school of mandolins that inhabit the house.
		I assume that the octave mandoin is what I would call an octave mandola which is tuned an octave below the mandolin.
		The bottom line here is that the same chord shapes will produce different chords on the mandola - think of it as playing the octave mandolin with a capo on the 5th fret.
	www.mudcat.org /thread.cfm?ThreadID=30011 (1012 words)

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