page_title: Mandolin orchestra
section_title: Orchestra composition
hierarchical_section_title: Mandolin orchestra / Orchestra composition
caption_attribution_description: [front]: 1914 F-4 mandolin, 1924 K-4 mando-cello, 1917 H-4 mandola, 1916 J mando-bass, 1904 A-4 mandolin, 1914 K-2 mando-cello; all by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Co., Kalamazoo. [right]: unknonw mandolin, 1908 Kite mandolin by F. Lang. [rear]: 1917 Symphony Style 5 harp guitar by Cal &amp; August Larson, 1930 Aero-uke ukulele by Stromberg-Voisinet. “The Harp Guitar has a second sound hole - don't know that it qualifies as a side port...1917 National Music Museum in Vermillion, SD (home of a Stadivarius mandolin and guitar!)”&#8212;Larry Jacobsen Precise listing: Gibson Mandolin Family, &#160;National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota front: left to right [in other photo] NMM 10052. Mandolin by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, ca. 1904. Style F-3. Serial number 3617. NMM 6070. Mandolin by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, 1914. Style F-4, Artist's Model. Serial number 17800. NMM 6086. Mando-cello by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, 1924. Style K-4, Artist's Model. Serial number 76996. NMM 6098. Mandola by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, 1917. Style H-4, Artist's Model. Serial number 33609. NMM 2883. Mando-bass by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, 1916. Style J. Serial number 25936. NMM 6192. Mandolin by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, ca. 1904. Style A-4. Serial number 3121. (See also: NMM 4085) NMM 6085. Mando-cello by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, 1914. Style K-2. Serial number 17984. unknown mandolin rear: left to right NMM 2817. Harp guitar by Carl and August Larson, Chicago, ca. 1917. Symphony Style 5. No serial number. Distributed by W. J. Dyer &amp; Bro., Minneapolis. NMM 2766. Ukulele by Stromberg-Voisinet Co., Chicago, ca. 1930. Aero-uke. “Built in the shape of an airplane.” NMM 2774. Kite Mandolin by F. Lang, Chicago, patented April 28, 1908. upper: right Photograph: The Cornell Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Club ay Cornel University, Ithaca, New York, 1895&#8211;96. References Checklist of Mandolins by Gibson.&#32;National Music Museum. Checklist of Plucked Stringed Instruments by Carl and August Larson (The Larson Brothers).&#32;National Music Museum. Checklist of Ukuleles.&#32;National Music Museum. Thread: Early gibsons.&#32;Forum.&#32;Mandolin Cafe&#32;(July 03~18 2008).
context_page_description: A mandolin orchestra is an orchestra consisting primarily of instruments from the mandolin family of instruments, such as the mandolin, mandola, mandocello and mandobass or mandolone. Some mandolin orchestras use guitars and double-basses instead of, or as well as, the lower mandolin-family instruments.
context_section_description: A mandolin orchestra is an ensemble of plucked string instruments similar in structure to the string sections of a symphony orchestra. There are first and second mandolin sections (analogous to first and second violins); a mandola section (analogous to the viola section); mandocelli (analogous to the violincelli), classical guitars, and a bass section originally of mando-basses but nowadays more likely to be acoustic bass guitar or double bass.
  The classical guitar section is very important and many orchestras are more accurately described as mandolin and guitar orchestras. Many orchestras also include a percussion section.
  Most mandolin orchestras are community-based and are supported by a core of professional musicians and teachers with a passion for plucked string instruments and music. They are found in nearly all major cities in the western world, as well as Japan, Korea, and South America.
caption: Instruments of the mandolin family, all built by Gibson.
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