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A desperate attempt to make a somewhat systematic overview of the different members of the mandola family and some related instruments.

At the moment this list is more or less a duplicate of the one found at mandolin-player.com. I'm going to go through it and remove the instruments not relevant to blues, but in the meantime - well you won't complain about too much content, do you? ;-)

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This page is part of a major - and by no means finished - instrument presentation project involving most of my web sites. Things may still be a bit messy every now and then and there may still be important parts missing.



    Mandola family
        Piccolo mandolin
        Mandolin
            Bowlback mandolin
                Lombardic mandolin
                Milanese mandolin
                Cremonese mandolin
                Genovese mandolin
                Neapolitan mandolin
                    Roman mandolin
                Semibowlback mandolin
                Flattop mandolin
                    Portuguese mandolin
                    French mandolin
                    Walddoline
                    D style mandolin
                    Resonator mandolin
                Archtop mandolin
                    A style mandolin
                    F style mandolin
            Lyre mandolin
            Pocket mandolin
            Travelling mandolin
            Harp mandolin
            Ten-string mandolin
            Electroacoustic mandolin
        Mandriola
            16-string mandriola
        Electric mandolin
            10-string electric mandolin
        Alto mandola
            Ten-string mandola
            Twelve-string alto mandola
            Electroacoustic alto mandola
        Banjola
        Tenor mandola
                Tenor lute (2)
            Twelve-string tenor mandola
            Electoracoustic tenor mandola
            Electric tenor mandola
        Irish bouzouki
            Eight-string Irish bouzouki
            Ten-string Irish bouzouki
        Mandol
        Mandocello
            Liuto cantabile
        Mandobass
            Five-string mandobass
            Electric five-string mandobass
        Medieval mandola
        Renaissance mandola
        Classical mandola
        Baroque mandola
        Irish cittern
            Eight-string Irish cittern
            Ten-string Irish cittern
    Guitar
        Acoustic guitar
            Nylon-stringed guitar
                Ukulele
                    Taropatch
            Steel-stringed guitar
                Tenor guitar
                    Eight-string tenor guitar
                Plectrum guitar
                    Eight-string plectrum guitar
                Floating-bridge guitar
                    Mandolinetto
                    Violaline
                    Archtop guitar
        Electroacoustic guitar
            Electroacoustic steel-stringed guitar
                Electroacoustic mandolinetto
        Electric guitars
            Electric tenor guitar
            Electric archtop guitar
            Semiacoustic guitar
    Banjo (1)
            Mandolin-banjo
                Twelve-string mandolin-banjo
        Four-string banjo
            Banjolin
            Alto banjolin
            Tenor banjo
                Tango banjo
                Short scale tenor banjo
                Irish tenor banjo
                Tenor banjolin
            Bass banjolin
            Bass banjo
                Upright bass banjo
        Banjo harp
            Five-string banjo harp
            Tenor harp
    Yueqin
        Charing

Zither instruments
            Mandolin-harp
    Lute-zither
        Stössel-mandolin

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