Mandolinewpntr2018-12-19T18:28:33+00:00Mandolins are instruments which are usually plucked with a plectrum or ‘pick’. Commonly they have four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison. The instrument left has a domed body, a top which is slightly bent at the bottom part of the instrument with an oval sound hole and hard extension. It belongs to the most common type of Mandolins, the so called Neapolitan Mandolin. The Mandolin at the right side (Germany, 1912) has some characteristics of a Milanese Mondolin; it has a flat top, a bridge with an attachment for the strings, a tuner box bent backwards, and its body is more flat comparing with the Neapolitan Mandoline at the left. The sound hole of this instrument is ornamented in the shape of Mozart head. The Mandoline, in middle, has a slightly domed top. It is a type that often is used in folk music 